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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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And How Do We Learn?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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A Letter To Emperor Nero
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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How Every Empire Falls
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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The Life of Terence
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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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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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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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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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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