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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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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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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
3 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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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.
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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