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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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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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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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The Great Experience (1963)
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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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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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Early Christian Poetry
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Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Essential Classics
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
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over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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African History...
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Global Inequality...
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Stock vs flow approach.
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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The Silence of the Elephants
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Patterns in Humanity
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Dreams of Space -...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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What Is Solipsism?
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History Today Feed
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
Flashbak
Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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What Is Voguing?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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History Today Feed
‘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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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Classical Wisdom
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The Ancient Novel
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Will The West Eat Itself?
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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9 months ago
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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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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