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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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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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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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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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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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War Is Complicated.
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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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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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Who Was Eusebius?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Summary of changes for March
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Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
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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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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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