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Mozu Tombs, Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozu_Tombs The Mozu Tombs (百舌鳥古墳群, Mozu kofungun) are a group of megalithic tombs in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, only less than 50% of the key-hole, round and rectangular tombs remain.

Mozu Tombs Japan

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PACER Electronic Court Records
https://www.pacer.gov/ Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information online from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator. PACER is provided by the Federal Judiciary in keeping with its commitment to providing […]

PACER Electronic Court Records

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Wolfram Alpha
https://www.wolframalpha.com/tour/ “Wolfram|Alpha is a unique engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis and generate reports. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS New kinds of algorithms for 1,000+ domains CURATED DATA 10+ trillion pieces of data from […]

Wolfram Alpha Research Search Engine

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Journalist Suzanna Andrews
Source: SuzannaAndrews.com Suzanna Andrews is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where she writes features and investigative articles on business, politics, culture and crime. As a freelance journalist, she has written for New York Magazine, MORE, Bloomberg Businessweek, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, and other publications. […]

Journalist Suzanna Andrews

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4th Amendment to the US Constitution
The fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the […]

4th Amendment to the US Constitution

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We Are Change
https://wearechange.org/blog/ We Are Change is a nonpartisan, independent media organization comprised of individuals and groups working to expose corruption worldwide. Founded by Luke Rudkowski, We Are Change is comprised of independent journalists, concerned citizens, activists, and anyone who wants to shape the direction our world is going in. We seek […]

We Are Change

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Surveillance Self-Defense Security Starter Pack
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or […]

Surveillance Self-Defense Security Starter Pack

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WikiSource Documents Archive
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page “Poetry from ancient and romantic to modern, in love and war Texts, laws, constitutions of many countries Documents from US history, including Revolution and Civil War US law: Supreme Court decisions, government documents, presidential addresses General literature: modern novels and short stories, horror stories, children’s literature, science fiction, drama […]

WikiSource Documents Archive

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Ballotpedia Electoral Encyclopedia
https://ballotpedia.org/   Ballotpedia is the digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Our goal is to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government. We are firmly committed to neutrality in our content.   As a nonprofit, our mission is to […]

Ballotpedia Electoral Encyclopedia

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Real Clear Investigations features articles, in-depth journalism, and investigative reporting from their own writers and others.
https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/ “Our mission is three-fold: curate the best investigative reporting found anywhere, produce our own in-depth journalism, and make this original work available to other news organizations.”

Real Clear Investigations

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin St. Peter’s Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L’Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the […]

St. Peter’s Baldachin Vatican City

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HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Visualizations and Infographics
https://howmuch.net/ HowMuch.net was born with one mission: “Understanding Money.” We create unique, beautiful, compelling, and easy-to-understand guides and visualizations to help people make better financial decisions. By turning complicated economic & financial matters into digestible visuals accompanied by insightful articles, we help people become better informed about financial facts that […]

HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Infographics and Visualizations

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https://www.muckrock.com/ “File, track, and share public records requests. MuckRock is a non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed. The site provides a repository of hundreds of thousands of pages […]

MuckRock FOIA Public Records Requests Archive

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Seowon Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seowon Seowon (Korean: 서원; Hanja: 書院) were the most common educational institutions of Korea during the mid- to late Joseon Dynasty. They were private institutions, and combined the functions of a Confucian shrine and a preparatory school. In educational terms, the seowon were primarily occupied with preparing students for the […]

Seowon Korea

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Information is Beautiful Infographics
https://informationisbeautiful.net/ Data, information, knowledge: we distill it into beautiful, useful graphics & diagrams. Founded by David McCandless, author of two bestselling infographics books, Information is Beautiful is dedicated to helping you make clearer, more informed decisions about the world. All our visualizations are based on facts & data: constantly updated, […]

Information is Beautiful Infographics

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Scottish Declaration of Independence: 1320 Declaration of Arbroath for Scottish Sovereignty
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Arbroath The Declaration of Arbroath (Scots: Declaration o Aiberbrothock; Latin: Declaratio Arbroathis; Scottish Gaelic: Tiomnadh Bhruis) is a declaration of Scottish independence, made in 1320. It is in the form of a letter in Latin submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland’s status […]

1320 Declaration of Arbroath for Scottish Sovereignty

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Source: https://mises.org/ The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition.   For over 30 years the Mises Institute has provided both scholars and laymen with resources to broaden their understanding of the economic school of thought […]

Ludwig Von Mises Institute

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Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/ When we founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 – as the first investigative news magazine based on the Internet – there was already a crisis building in the U.S. news media. The mainstream media was falling into a pattern of groupthink on issue after issue, often ignoring important factual information because […]

Consortium News

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TUDelft Open CourseWare MOOC
https://ocw.tudelft.nl/programs/ “OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials… Delft University of Technology has joined the Open Education Consortium in offering the world free access to certain course content online. TU Delft OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet […]

TUDelft Open Courseware

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LTC Litecoin Cryptocurrency
https://litecoin.org/ Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. Litecoin is an open source, global payment network that is fully decentralized without any central authorities. Mathematics secures the network and empowers individuals to control their own finances. Litecoin features faster transaction […]

LTC Litecoin Cryptocurrency

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Dome of the Rock Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rockhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة‎ Qubbat al-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע‎ Kippat ha-Sela) is an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was initially completed in 691–92 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna […]

Dome of The Rock Jerusalem

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Laotian Plain of Jars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars The Plain of Jars (Lao: ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ [tʰōŋ hǎj hǐn]) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. The jars are arranged in clusters ranging in number […]

Plain of Jars Laos

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Source: Josh Begley and Jeremy Scahill for The Intercept This is a labyrinth with 12 entrances and no exit. It is built on a cache of documents provided to The Intercept by a source within the intelligence community. Operators can watch their targets for hours, often from air-conditioned rooms, until they receive the order […]

Drones: A Visual Glossary

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Karbala City Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala Karbala or Kerbala (Arabic: كَرْبَلَاء‎, romanized: Karbalāʾ [karbaˈlaːʔ], /ˈkɑːrbələ/ KAR-bə-lə,[2][3] also US: /ˌkɑːrbəˈlɑː/ KAR-bə-LAH;[4][5]) is a city in central Iraq, located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Baghdad, and a few dozen miles east of Lake Milh.[6][7] Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated […]

Karbala City Iraq

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Yuka Food App Barcode Scanner
Yuka.io is a barcode scanner app that displays nutrition information for food products. “Yuka is a small team of 12 people who pour their energy each day into a job that means something to them: a free app to help individuals make the right choices for their health. The Yuka […]

Yuka Food App

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1st Amendment to the United States Constitution
The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a […]

1st Amendment to the US Constitution

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Tetris Kids Game
https://tetris.com/play-tetris “By embracing our universal desire to create order out of chaos, the Tetris® game provides intellectual sport that combines continuous fun with mental stimulation. As one of the most recognizable and influential video game brands in the world, it’s no wonder why there are hundreds of millions of Tetris products being played, worn, and […]

Tetris

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor The first fragments of warriors and bronze arrowheads were discovered by Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and Wang Puzhi who were digging a well in March 1974 in Xiyang, a village of the Lintong county.[15][16] At a depth of around two meters, they found hardened dirt, then red earthenware, […]

Terracotta Warriors

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Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention
http://www.non-intervention2.com/ Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is a former intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, American blogger, author, foreign policy critic, political analyst, and former adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies. One assignment during his 22-year career was serving as Chief of the Bin […]

Michael Scheuer’s Non-Intervention

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New Discourses: "Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness." Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group.
New Discourses: “Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.” Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group. Welcome to New Discourses! We like to think of this place as a home for the politically homeless, especially for those who feel like they’ve been displaced from their political […]

New Discourses

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Liberapay Monetization Paywall
https://liberapay.com/ People who contribute to the commons need you to support their work. Building free software, spreading free knowledge, these things take time and cost money, not only to do the initial work, but also to maintain it over time. Liberapay’s recurrent donations system is designed to provide a stable […]

Liberapay Creator Monetization Paywall

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