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A History of Phantom Pain
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Dreams of Space -...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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The (history of) spice must flow
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
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To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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And does it need to be true to be important?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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TheCollector
Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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state and society in south-central Africa
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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A Collection of...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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A Collection of...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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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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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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African History...
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Dreams of Space -...
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I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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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...
10 months ago
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;...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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TheCollector
Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Flashbak
Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
6 days ago
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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TheCollector
Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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3 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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3 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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TheCollector
Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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TheCollector
Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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TheCollector
Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
5 days ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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TheCollector
Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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TheCollector
Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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...
over a year ago
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...
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
4 months ago
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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a month ago
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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3 months ago
TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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