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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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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...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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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...
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Recidivism in Norway
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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The Electoral College Explained
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Understanding political violence.
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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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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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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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 Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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