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Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games
A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm
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October 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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The Old Bridge by Hubert Robert, 1760
October 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The Tragic Actor by Édouard Manet, 1866
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Seized vehicles of DDR citizens who fled via Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The Stasi, summer 1989.
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Film noir, 1940s
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Equestrian portrait of Franz I by Johann Peter Krafft, 1832
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Dress, France, c. 1780
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Samson and Delilah by Anthony van Dyck, 1628-30
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Illustration by George Barbier, published in the Gazette du Bon Ton, 1914
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Eastern Bloc tech, c. 1960s–1980s.
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Turban helmet. Ottoman, possibly Istanbul, c. late 15th century
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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RAF Short Stirling bombers in flight, 1942
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Still life with parrot by Pietro Paolo Cennini (1661–1739)
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Lucrezia Borgia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1871
October 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Quiet haven.
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The secret to faience’s creamy white surface? Tin oxide — a trick that made humble clay look like porcelain. 🤍
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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"In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war..." - Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Early 1800s. Candles were too expensive. More sleep, less light.
October 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Hoher Markt. Vienna, 1903
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Boxes, bottles, cans, and similar objects, often all damaged or washed, lay in plain sight. They were old and boring. No one was interested in them. They were a perfect cover for information that could turn the course of history.
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The Clandestine Nature of Dead Drops - THE HISTORY AVENUE
Dead drops were a crucial method of spy tradecraft during the Cold War. It was a successful means of espionage tradecraft. So, stories like the one from the beginning of this article weren’t rare.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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History teaches us that many of the greatest leaders were not ‘manufactured’ in formal schools or through coaching, but forged in crises. Think of Winston Churchill during WWII, or Abraham Lincoln in the turmoil of the American Civil War.
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Why True Leaders Are Forged, Not Manufactured - THE HISTORY AVENUE
Sometimes brilliant leaders emerge in war; others excel in planning and administration. In the same way, there are some brilliant football players and coaches — and many average ones.
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October 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Tyrian purple’s exclusivity meant only the wealthiest and most powerful could afford this fabric dyed in this regal color. Roman emperors, Byzantine royalty, and later European monarchs saved Tyrian purple velvet for their formal robes and furnishings.
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Velvet and the Language of Color: Crimson, Imperial Purple, and Beyond - THE HISTORY AVENUE
From its beginnings, velvet has been more than a luxurious fabric. It has served as a canvas for color, with each hue carrying deep meaning and social significance.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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More than a feature, the sea is a historical force that has defined island life for generations.
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Seaside Stories: Art, Heritage, and the Dalmatian Spirit with Josipa and Mariana Plazibat - THE HISTORY AVENUE
There is something alluring and intriguing in these three things that, when perfectly blended, create a beauty that people only with refined taste can understand.
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August 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Read the stories from the past and about the past.

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July 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Among the losses potentially suffered were:
Lost drama of Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus.
Missing books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita.
Work by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Anaximander and Heraclitus...

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The Fall of Constantinople (1453): What Was Really Lost? - THE HISTORY AVENUE
The 1453 fall of Constantinople was not only the fall of the Byzantine Empire but also one of the biggest intellectual and cultural losses in all of human history. When the Ottoman Empire, led by Sult...
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July 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM