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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Brushing for Britain
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Trying to Understand...
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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government in central Africa.
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
10 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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4 months ago
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
10 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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11 months ago
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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8 months ago
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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a year ago
African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
a week ago
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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11 months ago
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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11 months ago
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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a year ago
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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9 months ago
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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a year ago
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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9 months ago
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
A Collection of...
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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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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7 months ago
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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7 months ago
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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7 months ago
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
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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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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