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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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The Story of Thebes
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Why Should We Care About Children?
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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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 is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Another Of My Essays In French
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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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...
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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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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Seneca On Clemency
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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One I bought fifty years ago.
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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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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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Dionysus
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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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
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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an island in the maelstrom
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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What Is Panpsychism?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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What Is Capoeira?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
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...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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