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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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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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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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The Diversity Paradox.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Do You Listen Well?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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The Roman Socrates
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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