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In the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa, Harry Dawes, a screenwriter and director played by Humphrey Bogart, summarizes the difference between a movie script and real life. “A script has to make sense. Life doesn’t.” The comment explains why some people prefer fiction over…

Mar 16

New Top Community

Why did states and empires emerge earlier in some parts of the world than in others? The question has long intrigued historians, who have wanted to…

Mar 12

Music as time goes by

Mar 7

Florence Nightingale’s diagram of deaths

Mar 2

Don't bother to write

Feb 28

How we got here and where we’re going

Feb 25

Fairness and justice

Feb 24

(Catalog of Amazing Ideas)

Feb 18

A User's Guide to History

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