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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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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
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Dreams of Space -...
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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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...
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
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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...
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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