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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Does Karma Exist?
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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The "New" Ancient City
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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What Is Gnosticism?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Plato and Atlantis
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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The World's First Computer
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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