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Start to Infinity (1978)
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Dreams of Space -...
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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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 March.
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
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Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Wrong Side of...
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How French Was Medieval England?
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TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
TheCollector
5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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TheCollector
A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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9 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
a year ago
Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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TheCollector
Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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7 months ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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3 days ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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7 months ago
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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3 months ago
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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a year ago
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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