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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
3 weeks ago
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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a year ago
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Who Was George Eliot?
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Summary of changes for June
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over a year ago
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Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Summary of changes for July
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
Classical Wisdom
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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a year ago
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Summary of changes for December
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over a year ago
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Continue Reading
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Petra and Passports
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Patterns in Humanity
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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The Essential Greeks
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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African History...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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What Was Négritude?
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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Another Of My Essays In French
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Hundred Rabbits
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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Patterns in Humanity
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Secrets of the Sirens
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Wrong Side of...
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Should We Own Stuff?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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a year ago
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Classical Wisdom
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Origins of Stoicism
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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