Trying to Understand...
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That's a good question.
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Summary of changes for April 2023
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a year ago
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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4 months ago
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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a year ago
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Ancient Olympics
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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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.
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
a week ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
How to Read Film Like a Language
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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What Was Négritude?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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6 months ago
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Early Bird is Ending
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
TheCollector
Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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