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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Beyond Mars (1960)
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Rocket Divers (1962)
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 months ago
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
a week ago
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
11 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Flashbak
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...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
8 months ago
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
6 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
a year ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
3 days ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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TheCollector
What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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TheCollector
What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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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...
over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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11 months ago
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
6 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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6 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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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...
a month ago
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.
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
a month ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
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...
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
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...
5 months ago
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
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
8 months ago
Flashbak
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
23 hours ago
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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5 days ago
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
6 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
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