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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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What is Modernity?
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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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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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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What Was Jim Crow?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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What is Virtue?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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The (history of) spice must flow
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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