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Putting Pirates on Trial
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
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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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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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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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
African History...
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government in central Africa.
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Classical Wisdom
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Flashbak
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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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Eternal Glory
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Global Inequality...
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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