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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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It's about having small expectations.
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Arguing with the Dead
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Arguing with the Dead
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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The "New" Ancient City
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Classical Wisdom
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
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7 months ago
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TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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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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TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
TheCollector
6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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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
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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A Celebration of Virtue
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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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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
TheCollector
Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Classical Wisdom
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Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
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TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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...
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Global Inequality...
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Stock vs flow approach.
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
Classical Wisdom
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
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