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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
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a complete history of an African monument
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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a year ago
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Summary of changes for March 2023
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a year ago
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Quick Notification
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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What Is the Will to Power?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Olympics Special
4 months ago
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
4 hours ago
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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8 months ago
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Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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a year ago
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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9 months ago
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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a year ago
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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a year ago
Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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A history of the monastic high life
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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The End of the World?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Julius Caesar
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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What to do with Columbus?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Who Was Tertullian?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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