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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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an African portrait of an African society
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
African History...
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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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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A Collection of...
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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Summary of changes for December 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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100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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Hundred Rabbits
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
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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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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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American polarisation: part 2
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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TheCollector
The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Trying to Understand...
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The kinetic phase may come next.
TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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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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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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The Essential Greeks
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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What Was Négritude?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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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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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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What Are Conlangs?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Was Alexander Great?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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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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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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