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Should We Be More Naked?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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B-24 Liberators: The Aircraft That Ended the Reign of the U-Boat
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Hidden History
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
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I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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For the Love of the Classics
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Hundred Rabbits
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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History Today Feed
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TheCollector
10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
3 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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TheCollector
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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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
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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TheCollector
Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Res Obscura
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
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Dr Alun Withey
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TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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What Is Voguing?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Classical Wisdom
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Was Alexander Great?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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What Was the First Written Language?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Is Thatcherism?
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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You And Whose Army?
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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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...
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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...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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What’s the History of Gin?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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No End Of A Lesson.
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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