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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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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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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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What Is Populism?
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Dreams of Space -...
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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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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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...
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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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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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The Life of Terence
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Hundred Rabbits
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
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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