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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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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...
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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A Week Off And A New Language
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Fate and Free Will
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
3 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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Beyond Stoicism
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Xerxes the Great
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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The First Biographers
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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...
6 months ago
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Patterns in Humanity
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Government Governs Best?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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9 months ago
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
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.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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7 months ago
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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2 months ago
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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10 months ago
Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
2 months ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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4 months ago
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
4 days ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
2 weeks ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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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...
a year ago
“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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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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10 months ago
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
11 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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4 months ago
TheCollector
How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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3 months ago
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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9 months ago
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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4 months ago
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
a year ago
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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2 months ago
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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a year ago
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
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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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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5 months ago
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 months ago
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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7 months ago
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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5 months ago
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
2 weeks ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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6 months ago
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
3 weeks ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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9 months ago
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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7 months ago
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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11 months ago
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
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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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
2 weeks ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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a year ago
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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5 months ago
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year ago
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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9 months ago
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
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