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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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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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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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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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over a year ago
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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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 June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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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.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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A Collection of...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Hidden History
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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African History...
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Trying to Understand...
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11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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a year ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Flashbak
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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A Collection of...
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Dreams of Space -...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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A Collection of...
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Beyond Stoicism
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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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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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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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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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
Hundred Rabbits
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...
4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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