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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Global Inequality...
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Does Free Will Exist?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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What Is Gnosticism?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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No Meta Status Orgs
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Is an Antipope?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
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Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
3 days ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
Flashbak
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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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
8 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
6 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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What Is Solipsism?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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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?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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