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How French Was Medieval England?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Hundred Rabbits
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We left our mooring at...
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
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a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
TheCollector
Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Classical Wisdom
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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One I bought fifty years ago.
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Last Chance
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
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TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Should We Be More Naked?
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TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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What Is Theodicy?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Res Obscura
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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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...
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
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9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Oedipus at Colonus
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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The Essential Greeks
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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But who is prepared to admit it?
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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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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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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