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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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“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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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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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...
5 months ago
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 History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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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.
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Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
History and Myth
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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