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Dreams of Space -...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Dreams of Space -...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Trying to Understand...
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an African portrait of an African society
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
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Hidden History
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Arguing with the Dead
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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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...
2 months ago
“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,...
Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
a year ago
Bringing History to the Future
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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Who Was Eusebius?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
4 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
2 months ago
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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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...
a month ago
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...
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
a year ago
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
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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...
a month ago
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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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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9 months ago
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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6 months ago
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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4 months ago
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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