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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Global Inequality...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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In Defence of Boring Books
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
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government in central Africa.
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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And fiddling won't fix it.
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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