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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Dionysus
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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A Brief History of Chile
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Summary of changes for February
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Columbine 25 Years On
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Stoicism and Stress
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
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But right back where we started from.
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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a year ago
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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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...
a month ago
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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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
3 weeks ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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a year ago
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
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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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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6 months ago
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
8 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
6 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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