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Todd
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UnderstandingSociety: Demystifying social knowledge
We might think of these as styles of sociological thinking.  One emphasizes the ordinariness of the phenomena, and looks at the chief challenges of sociology as embracing the tasks of description, classification, and explanation.  The other highlights...
 
Peter R
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Old Europe
Culture of Old Europe Is Uncloaked in an Exhibit at N.Y.U. – NYTimes.comFascinating.
2 hours ago Peter's Blog | Topics: Europe, history
 
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De l’armée coloniale à l’armée néocoloniale (1830 - 1990) - Survie France
"This booklet accompanies the publication of No. 23 of the collection "Black Dossiers" from Suivre [an anti-Neocolonial activist group in France] entitled 'What is the French army in Africa?', written by Raphaël Granvaud and...
 
William
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Keeping Faith
Today, with our spirit beaten down by two long wars, an economic collapse, and a seemingly paralyzed political process; we wait...
 
Mark Smithers
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TrailBlazing Royal Society
Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries...
 
Master K
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Reducing Men to Animals
After reading a book about history I realized that man in the past as just a little more than a pig or a dog because he could...
 
Sourav
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Reducing Men to Animals
After reading a book about history I realized that man in the past as just a little more than a pig or a dog because he could...
 
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National Day of Listening: A Better Use of a Friday
Whether the reasons are ideological, demophobia-based, or a little bit of both, many of us would rather avoid today's mass shopping chaos. As an alternative to Black Friday, Story Corps is promoting today as the National Day of Listening--an opportunity...
 
Francesco
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Royal Society
Trailblazing is a user-friendly, ‘explore-at-your-own-pace’, virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010.
 
Jon O
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Weird Fact of the Day (that you probably didn't know) | Metro.co.uk
Handy trivia, if there is such a thing. Such as: " In 1991, the tiny Channel Island of Sark was invaded. The invader was an unemployed French nuclear physicist called André Gardes, who announced his intention to stage a coup in posters he put up...
 
SRCHicks
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Heidegger, anti-humanism, and the Left
Tim Black, a senior writer at spiked, has a good review discussion of “Why they’re really scared of...
 
SMiles
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I Hear Too
Sound is often considered the poor relation of visual stimuli, yet plays a significant role in conveying information for rapid assimilation by a listener, and is a key component in the multi-modal perception of virtual/augmented reality applications....
 
footysphere
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Pure Football History
Sepp Blatter takes a look at the orginal hand-written rules of football. Be sure to click the thumbnail to visit the twitpic...
 
blog3
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The Book of General Ignorance
What’s the Tallest mountain in the world?Is French Toast French?How many senses does a human have?What color is the ...
 
<em>bobaboba55</em>
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Michael Jackson Jam Live Dangerous Tour 1992
Michael Jackson Jam Live Dangerous Tour 1992Related posts:MICHAEL JACKSON – SMOOTH CRIMINAL Dangerous World Tour 1992...
 
Plant EO
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The Kingston Lounge
Guerrilla preservation and urban archaeology. Brooklyn and beyond.
 
Scott Beale
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Rick Prelinger Presents Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 at The Long Now Foundation
photo via The Long Now FoundationGuerrilla archivist Rick Prelinger, who runs the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, will be...
9 hours ago Laughing Squid | Topics: Events, History, San Francisco
 
Ysabetwordsmith
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Epic Update: "Warning Sine" and "Choralia"
There are currently two poems being microfunded..."Warning Sine" is a science fiction poem about the difficulty of...
 
Suwandi leung
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History Of Asics Shoes
Asics is a Japanese company that officially began business on September 1, 1949 Related posts:Guidelines for buying Adidas...
 
Rete
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List 600 m-HD movies on Mediafire
This is a big collection, all are Mediafire links. Enjoy it!...
10 hours ago Download Extra | Topics: Western, Thriller, Adventure, Comedy
 
<em>stone1343</em>
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Addicted to Nonsense
By Chris Hedges Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? We stand on the cusp of one of the most seismic events in human history and our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd. READ THE...
 
jpetty
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Interventionist crowd wants a do-over
Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, thinks Dick Cheney running for president would be a good idea. The reason? A contest between...
 
baksanir
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Mir Castle, Belarus
It’s located in the town of Mir in the Grodno region of Belarus. Located 100 km south of Minsk, off the Brest...
 
Rant93
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Thanksgiving Maskers - Boing Boing
A photograph from the Library of Congress collection in the Flickr Commons.Thanksgiving Maskers, what the heck's that, you ask? Before Halloween became the holiday it now is in the United States, children would dress up in masks on the final...
 
<em>jnwarrenjr</em>
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The Last Days of John Brown: Martyr, Revolutionary, or Terrorist?
150 years ago this week, John Brown was executed and his body was returned to the Adirondacks. Had Brown escaped from Harpers...
 
Zeinobia
Zeinobia posted new photos
Royal couple in a hunting trip Queen Farida visiting the scout girls HQ Princess Ferial with Queen Farida in a tennis court Queen Farida , Princess Faiza and Princess Ferial Visiting a hospital More
 
LakelandLocal
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New Book on the Polk Museum of Art
Right off the presses and just in time for Lakelanders’ Christmas stockings is a great coffee table book featuring the Polk...
12 hours ago Lakeland Local | Topics: arts, art, florida, history
 
Zeinobia
Zeinobia posted new photos
Queen Farida with bro Sherif in villa Shams 1938 Black Egyptian Dahlia
 
arabesque
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Inside the walls of Intramuros, still continuing my post the other day...Baluarte de San Andres also known as *Baluarte*...
12 hours ago manila-hop | Topics: intramuros, tunnel, history
 
baksanir
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Elba
On the map Elba looks like a fish, swimming placidly some 20 km off the Italian mainland at Piombino. It is biggest of the...
 
Tami Brass
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virtual museum
"The Virtual Museum has been realised through digital environments and 3-D images so as to give visibility to a few of the most remarkable artefacts included in the collections of the Museums involved in the project. To these artefacts have been...
 
Chris Melton
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James Madison Quotes
73 quotes and quotations by James Madison
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
175 quotes and quotations by Thomas Jefferson
 
Rick Spilman
Rick Spilman posted a blog entry
Wreck Reef Expedition: shipwrecks, reefs and bird excrement
The maritime archaeology team of the Australian National Maritime Museum is setting off today on a two week expedition to the...
 
Green D
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كلمتين: للمآذن دورها الرمزي بجانب دورها العملي
ففي النهاية أنا ضد القرار السويسري. لكنني أيضا ضد اللا قرار المصري الذي ساهم بشكل أو بأخر في طمس هوية شعب و ثقافته. و إن كان اللوم في سويسرا و...
 
Adriano Ribeiro
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The Evolution of Web Design
Um pouco sobre a história do Web Design, focada no desenvolvimento front-end
 
John B
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Fading Obama Rose
The bloom is off the Obama rose in the Arab world, writes Fouad Ajami on the pages of The Wall St. Journal. By not picking...
 
robertg69
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Men meet a seal on loosely packed ice
Image via WikipediaMembers of the crew of Clipper Stad Amsterdam are encountering all kinds of things and fauna during...
 
adiska
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Zac Posen to Launch Target Go International Collection!
Zimbio Designer Zac Posen (R) and a model walks the runway after the Zac Posen Fall 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz...