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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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a year ago
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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5 months ago
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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7 months ago
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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2 months ago
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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9 months ago
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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2 months ago
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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2 weeks ago
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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a year ago
African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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3 weeks ago
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 months ago
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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12 months ago
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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a year ago
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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9 months ago
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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10 months ago
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
a month ago
The Shire must be brought to heel
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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4 months ago
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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9 months ago
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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7 months ago
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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3 months ago
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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8 months ago
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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a week ago
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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4 days ago
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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a year ago
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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5 months ago
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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a year ago
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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12 months ago
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 months ago
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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a year ago
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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a month ago
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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3 months ago
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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2 months ago
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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11 months ago
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 months ago
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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a week ago
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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a year ago
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Who Was Vortigern?
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6 months ago
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
Open Culture
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...
5 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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11 months ago
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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10 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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7 months ago
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
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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...
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 months ago
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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6 months ago
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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3 months ago
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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2 months ago
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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a month ago
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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9 months ago
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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a year ago
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 months ago
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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8 months ago
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