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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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African History...
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Summary of changes for February 2023
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
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over a year ago
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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11 months ago
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Trying to Understand...
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Truth in the old myths
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On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Secrets of the Scythians
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Technology indistinguishable from magic
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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History Today Feed
The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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