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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
5 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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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...
a year ago
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...
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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A Brief History of Chile
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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What’s the History of Gin?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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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...
7 months ago
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...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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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...
3 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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