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In 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia, “the gospel of the witches”, containing a goddess-orientated creation and saviour narrative, purported to descend from an ancient, hermetic tradition of witchcraft in Italy. A. D. Manns explores this text via an enchanting conjecture: that the…
From The Public Domain Review
Dioramas avant la lettre that depict local life in Suriname.
From The Public Domain Review
Two friends tell the story of their friendship through every generation of K-pop.
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A digital commonplace book on education, IndieWeb, mathematics, information theory, biology, history, economics, humanities, note taking & related topics.
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After 17 years, Foursquare’s ending is written. Writing this to share my opinions & frustrations with the final years of the company, and to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ’s legacy.
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'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years…
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Blog über Windows 98, Windows 95, MS-DOS, C64, Downloads, Nusb, Retro Gaming allgemein und Zoom Player
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Via Newspapers.com One for the “mini mysteries” file: This unresolved poisoning case was reported in the “South Wales Argus,” February 8, 1934. How did cyanide of potassium, used for electro-plating, find its way into a teacup from which a girl of 20 drank tea and died shortly afterwards? This was…
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Captain(Korvettenkapitän)Werner Lott was commander of U-35 from 15 August 1937 until 29 November 1939.He sank 4 ships and damaged one. You often hear about war crimes committed by the German armed forces, but there were also acts of decency. Around 15.40 on 3 Oct, 1939, the Greek freighter…
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DIESEL THE MAGUS: THE FATHER OF AŠA AND THE REOPENING OF DIVINE HISTORY I. INTRODUCTION AND COGNITIVE RE-ORIENTATION The academic […]
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How the words we teach English language learners changed.
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An essay on the legacy of Marvin Minsky with programmable interactive simulations
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Weedon Island Preserve is a 3100-acre county park located in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a wildlife refuge encompassing a series of islands in Tampa Bay, consisting mostly of mangrove swamp and slash pine/cabbage palmetto scrub. But its primary importance is as an archaeological site, centered…
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Un laboratoire pour la peinture,Un blog s'adressant aux collectionneurs en utilisant les technologies de traitement de l'image,Recherche en histoire de l'Art,collections,peintures anciennes,XVIème,XVIIème,XVIIIème,XIXème,siècle
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Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Wangari Mathenge’s…
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a visualization of the infamous WWII encryption device
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the classic 1962 manifesto, on increasing human capabilities
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October 29, 1921 - Centre College of Kentucky defeated Harvard University in what the New York Times called “arguably the upset of the century in college football.” On that fateful date in 1921, Harvard hadn’t lost a ga...
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This is a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter of WWII, in 1:144 scale, FDM printed on my old Ender 3. It's a very simple model with virtually no surface detail at all, and I don't recall who designed it or where I got it. It was some considerable time ago. I have no immediate use for it, as I…
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seven companies published eight papers between them, and the arithmetic worked because the tokyo shimbun comes off the chunichi's tokyo presses. they put their local news on one shared domain in 1998 and kept it there for nineteen years, straight through the arrival of the kyodo-backed portal that…
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The Schleswig Wars in the mid-19th century stemmed from nationalism rather than legal complexities. Denmark sought to centralize control over Schleswig-Holstein, home to many German speakers. This led to conflicts driven by both Danish and German nationalism, with superficial legal disputes serving…
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Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.
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A research catalogue of traditional attributions, anonymous writers, and later compositions Yes. This is an important companion to the biblical […]
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James Carville Goes To Gettysburg and Finds Donald Trump It’s a reductionist view of our history that tells us very little about the Lost Cause and MAGA. White supremacy never needed to be resurrected after the Civil War. It had always been present and not just in the South. Collapsing MAGA on to…
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