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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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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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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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A Brief History of Chile
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
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You don't need to know that.
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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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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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Monsters of Mythology
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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