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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Patterns in Humanity
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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a year ago
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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4 months ago
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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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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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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4 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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4 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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5 months ago
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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The God of the Dead
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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And How Do We Learn?
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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JamesHoare
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Do Words Matter?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
a month ago
Europe turns away from America.
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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a year ago
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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6 months ago
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
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over a year ago
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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a year ago
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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African History...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
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3 months ago
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
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TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
Classical Wisdom
Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
a month ago
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TheCollector
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
2 months ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
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TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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What Are Conlangs?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Classical Wisdom
The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
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TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Does Marcus Matter?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Useless in Gaza
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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What is Virtue?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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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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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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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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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Overcoming Bias
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Petra and Passports
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What Is Populism?
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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