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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What Is Solipsism?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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an island in the maelstrom
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Aristotle on Luck
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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10 Must-Visit Historic Mountain Towns in the US
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Seneca On Clemency
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Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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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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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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