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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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How to Steal From Homer
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Socrates and the Soul
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TheCollector
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Dreams of Space -...
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Spartan Training
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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When Was D-Day?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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A Collection of...
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A Clash Of Symbols
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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a year ago
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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11 months ago
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Classical Wisdom
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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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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9 months ago
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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9 months ago
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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10 months ago
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
4 months ago
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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10 months ago
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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a year ago
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
7 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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6 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
10 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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4 months ago
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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
7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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8 months ago
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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4 months ago
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
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