TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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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
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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TheCollector
What Was the Berlin Conference?
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TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
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...
3 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...
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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TheCollector
10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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TheCollector
Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year 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
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
2 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
TheCollector
A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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9 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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A Collection of...
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...
9 months ago
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...
TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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TheCollector
Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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TheCollector
Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
History Today Feed
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
Flashbak
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:...
3 weeks ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
a week ago
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
11 months ago
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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4 days ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
7 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
5 days ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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TheCollector
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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a year ago
A Collection of...
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...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Patterns in Humanity
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
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6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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A History of the United States Senate
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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African History...
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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How the South Became Republican
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Why Socrates Matters
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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