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Okay, we need to have a chat about Roman portraiture. My feed is now full of horrifying #Nero reconstructions and I highly suggest that you don't look directly into his
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The Golden Age...A term (i suppose) well known by most of us. So why mention it? What really defines a ''Golden Age''? Let's start with one important notion: The worldview
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Bharat Mata and her revolutionariesThe 'Ghadar' Party-IThe visual persona of Bharat Mata which originated in the Bengal spread from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to the western part of India however, the
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A few words about the drama that unfolded over the past week plus regarding @ADL This will be a long thread—please read the whole thing before responding. And if you
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A on the 'Zhufan Zhi' 諸蕃志 written by Zhao Rukou in 1225 CEZhao was a prominent Chinese scholar/politician and member of the ruling Song DynastyThe book covers the known
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You are not a global citizen. You are a member of a local, physical, visible community, even if that community's status is in tatters from the drive to engineer the
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Hello. Welcome to the World Cup of Christmas Movies 2020. A journey to find out which Christmas movie is best, through a series of polls.2020 has been so negative and
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When you realize that Einstein's Brownian motion paper is really an equipartition theorem argument Reading the paper reminds me why I dislike historically-driven Modern Physics. How many of us have
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I just read the statement by the @ExeterChiefs about their #Native mascot and imagery... Long story short: They are retiring their "Big Chief" mascot but keeping the logo, which they
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Buddhism & Ancient Greece:One of the most interesting and cryptic topics regarding the Hellenistic period is the interactions between Buddhism and the Greek-speaking world. There are a number of interesting
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I just thought of a good analogy for what's bothering me about some of the #COVID19 analysis. A while back we ran a blog post about how modern house fires
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I tried reading WATCHMEN in my youth and never got through it. I’m having a much easier time with it on this second attempt. I wanted to at least give
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The most powerful pic in the Internet now!Aryan invasion theory has been punctured by the Rig Veda, Harappan archaeology & Saraswathy hydrology. But here is the DEADLIEST blow from Genetics!The
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Good morning, friends! Join me at 1pm, cst, today as I introduce a brief history of American Policing. What event would you argue single-handedly changed policing as we know it
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The government is going to do £450bn of quantitative easing (QE) this year. That should more than cover its total borrowing fir the year, meaning the actual sum owed to
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Today's bombshell that the leaked final report of the National Covid-19 Commission recommended propping up dying and climate-wrecking gas projects including the controversial and highly uncertain Narrabri Gas project must
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