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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever undefined
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection undefined
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection undefined
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past undefined
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects undefined
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s “The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands     The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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What Makes a Conflict a World War? undefined
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon undefined
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real undefined
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo undefined
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933 “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller     Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints undefined
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest undefined
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Who Was Tertullian? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Prometheus and AI?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II undefined
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity? undefined
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works undefined
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy undefined
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023 undefined
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial JamesHoare Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome undefined
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour undefined
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God? undefined
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari On the Spot: Ali Ansari JamesHoare Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome Ode to the Giants
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments) undefined
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088 There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures undefined
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World undefined
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th... The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs. Please help us not to understand.
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty JamesHoare Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous? undefined
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know undefined
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts undefined
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States undefined
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union undefined
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit undefined
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever undefined
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show undefined
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912) Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated? undefined
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh? undefined
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE? undefined
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality? undefined
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction undefined
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century undefined
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments) Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin? undefined
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997 New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty undefined
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio undefined
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City undefined
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song undefined
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting undefined
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal? undefined
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman undefined
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops “The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter  ...
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US? undefined
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass undefined
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review ‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review j.hoare Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State. But is there anything there?
3 weeks ago
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The Women who Forged Medieval England The Women who Forged Medieval England JamesHoare Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Weekend Roundup Aristotle on Friendship
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams? undefined
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong undefined
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany undefined
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980 Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties undefined
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James? undefined
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America? undefined
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee undefined
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity! undefined
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain JamesHoare Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet? undefined
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings? undefined
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Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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What Is First Corinthians About? undefined
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review ‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review JamesHoare Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement undefined
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg? undefined
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s “Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw     This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered undefined
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2 Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women JamesHoare Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche? undefined
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power? undefined
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House? undefined
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II? undefined
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008 undefined
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum undefined
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI undefined
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium undefined
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About undefined
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire undefined
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind undefined
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What Is Anti-Natalism? undefined
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955) Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk? undefined
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard undefined
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments undefined
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure undefined
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany? undefined
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Weekend Roundup Plutarch and Pleasure
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference? undefined
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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....
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“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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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran undefined
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million undefined
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of undefined
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung? undefined
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Weekend Roundup Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills undefined
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History undefined
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776  – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776  – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford... Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar? undefined
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For? undefined
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople? undefined
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Simulating History with ChatGPT The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul? undefined
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army undefined
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Weekend Roundup Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959) Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween. Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers undefined
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy undefined
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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....
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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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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate undefined
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values) Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism undefined
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada? undefined
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What Is the History of Halloween? undefined
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl? undefined
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England undefined
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919 undefined
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy) undefined
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution undefined
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination? Corruption in the Ancient World
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens? undefined
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Summary of changes for August Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon JamesHoare Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI undefined
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a home for pino We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage undefined
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know undefined
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Did Jesus Live in India? undefined
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met undefined
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit undefined
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Wood stove installation It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
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It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks. Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa undefined
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy undefined
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye undefined
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire undefined
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis undefined
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive? undefined
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Back in Stock! Mea Culpa
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages? undefined
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African History...
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works undefined
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots undefined
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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi... The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’? undefined
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination      Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying     On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide undefined
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &... In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead undefined
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931) On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin     John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary. In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire undefined
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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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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The Last Day of World War One At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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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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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week. 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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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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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...