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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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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Summary of changes for April 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 April.
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100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Democracy
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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