Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
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a year ago
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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The Secrets of Crete
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Why did clothing become boring?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Summary of changes for August
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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Flashbak
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
5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Art of the Etruscans
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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the sucessor of Songhai
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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.
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...
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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...
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Summary of changes for February 2023
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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African History...
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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African History...
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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A Collection of...
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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A Collection of...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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What Are Conlangs?
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Winged Victory
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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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...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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