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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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The Wages Of Fear
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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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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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Centuries of Childhood
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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A History of Phantom Pain
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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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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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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The Fall of a Republic
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A Few Spots Left
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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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 Was Operation Downfall?
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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African History...
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a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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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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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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A Brief History of Chile
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
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a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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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...
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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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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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