The elite college students who can’t read books
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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The art of translation
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Don't blame Dostoyevsky - Culture, too, is a casualty of war
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How to be an incipit
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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What do you think of alternate history?
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate...
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate history.
However, there's more than that. There are books and writers (I.E Harry turtledove), 3 subreddits (r/historywhatif, r/historicalwhatif and r/alternatehistory), many games (HOI I, II, III and IV, civ 1-6, Vicky 1-3, etc), a forum and according to Wikipedia, people have been speculating about history since before the year 0.
So what do you think of it?
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood
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"You can't say that! Stories have to be about white people"
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Sylvia Plath: "The Bee Meeting" with annotations
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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