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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Stoicism and Stress
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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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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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Into the Waste Land
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Death of the King of Siam
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Xerxes the Great
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Their Enemies The Russians
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But what about the rest of us?
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Rules, Rules Rules
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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