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Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Battle of the Historians
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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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...
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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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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The order of inequality
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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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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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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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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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
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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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
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What Was Négritude?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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the promise of pancakes
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
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