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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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In Defence of Boring Books
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Why Read Modern Books?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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a year ago
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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weird medieval guys
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Wrong Side of...
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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TheCollector
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
A Collection of...
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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9 months ago
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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TheCollector
Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
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a year ago
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When Was D-Day?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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a month ago
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
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TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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12 months ago
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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TheCollector
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Res Obscura
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Nature in Greek Myth
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Patterns in Humanity
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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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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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
Flashbak
The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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They know what they think.
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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What Is Theodicy?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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They Say They Want Rearmament ....
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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