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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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What Is the Didache?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Summary of changes for May
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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People, States and Borders.
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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a year ago
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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6 months ago
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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7 months ago
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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History Today Feed
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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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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.
African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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a week ago
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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