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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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a year ago
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Wrong Side of...
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Moving With the Times?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago....
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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What Is Theodicy?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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