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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The General History of Africa
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Flashbak
Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Olympics Special
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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The First Stoic
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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