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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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What Is Voguing?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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What Is Thatcherism?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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African History...
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
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Another of my essays in French.
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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This Changes Everything!
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
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But the future worries me.
Classical Wisdom
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Spartan Training
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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over a year ago
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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A Collection of...
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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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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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.
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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TheCollector
10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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TheCollector
International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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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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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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