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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
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Lost and Found
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Dreams of Space -...
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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...
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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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.
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Patterns in Humanity
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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A Brief History of Chile
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Is Voguing?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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internet in paradise
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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 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Summary of changes for December 2023
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 December.
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Summary of changes for February
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 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.
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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