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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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6 months ago
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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a year ago
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
5 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
a week ago
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
Hundred Rabbits
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...
6 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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a year ago
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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2 months ago
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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7 months ago
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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9 months ago
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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a year ago
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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8 months ago
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
2 months ago
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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9 months ago
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
9 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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7 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
8 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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6 months ago
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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7 months ago
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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10 months ago
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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8 months ago
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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4 months ago
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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8 months ago
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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4 months ago
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
7 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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a year ago
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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6 months ago
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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7 months ago
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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9 months ago
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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9 months ago
African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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4 months ago
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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a month ago
TheCollector
A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
a week ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
TheCollector
6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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5 months ago
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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a year ago
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
a year ago
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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5 months ago
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
a year ago
History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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9 months ago
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
2 months ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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6 months ago
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
3 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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a year ago
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
4 months ago
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
9 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
2 months ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
3 weeks ago
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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a year ago
Flashbak
Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
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...
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
2 months ago
The world that created Caravaggio
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a week ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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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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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
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Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
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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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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Or does war have its virtues?
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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How the CCP is Closing China
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Summary of changes for January 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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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Games Nations Play.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Weekend Roundup
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
African History...
**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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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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