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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
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Global power has always been distributed.
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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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 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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The Past Is Another Country.
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A book review from the future.
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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The Best of the Best
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
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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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
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What's it going to be, then?
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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...
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“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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What Was the First Written Language?
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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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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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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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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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Why did clothing become boring?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
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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
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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