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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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What Was Négritude?
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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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...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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...
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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