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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Do You Listen Well?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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How the South Became Republican
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Patterns in Humanity
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
Overcoming Bias
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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