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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880 Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880

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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts

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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Calm in the Face of Crisis

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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for October 2023

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version. Wunderland...
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Flashbak
23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain    ...
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23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots

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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain     Take a moment to look at the photo above. We don’t know Maureen. She’s the subject of a pair of ‘BEFORE’ and AFTER’ polaroids from Robert E Jackson’s astounding archive of snapshots....
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians But what about the rest of us?
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Their Enemies The Russians

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But what about the rest of us?
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Open Culture
Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
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Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation

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Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
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TheCollector
History of Christian Missionaries: From Apostles to Modern Day Christians believe Jesus Christ came to Earth with a divine message. After the Ascension, the...
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History of Christian Missionaries: From Apostles to Modern Day

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Christians believe Jesus Christ came to Earth with a divine message. After the Ascension, the followers of Jesus took the baton from him and picked up the task of spreading that same message. These messengers were called missionaries. This post will investigate Christian...
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards

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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop.  ...
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TheCollector
What Did Albert Camus Really Mean by the Absurd? It is widely (but wrongly) believed that what Camus means by the absurd is something like life...
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What Did Albert Camus Really Mean by the Absurd?

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It is widely (but wrongly) believed that what Camus means by the absurd is something like life viewed from a distance is completely meaningless. What Camus actually says is that life viewed in a particular way only appears meaningless. The crucial nuance, often missed, is that...
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real? Was the Trojan Horse Real? JamesHoare Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?

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Was the Trojan Horse Real? JamesHoare Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi

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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists. The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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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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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts Shipping Cutoff imminent
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Last Call for Classical Gifts

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Shipping Cutoff imminent
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The MUST-READ Classics
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Weekend Roundup

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The MUST-READ Classics
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827) “Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)

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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin     John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms JamesHoare Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms

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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms JamesHoare Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Wrong Side of...
Phantom Borders The past is never dead. It's not even past
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Phantom Borders

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The past is never dead. It's not even past
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7 Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
2 months ago
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News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7

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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert ‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert

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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert   Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring) Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)

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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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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...
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captain what is this

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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...
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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The Effects of Immigration in Denmark

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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China How the CCP is Closing China JamesHoare Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China

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How the CCP is Closing China JamesHoare Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement? The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement? JamesHoare Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?

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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement? JamesHoare Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Scholar's Stage
Science Proceeds One Question at a Time MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by...
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Science Proceeds One Question at a Time

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MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory of speciation by means of natural selection. By the time Wallace came on the scene...
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD. The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.

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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History? Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?

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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian The Death of Einhard the Historian JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Death of Einhard the Historian

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The Death of Einhard the Historian JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Weekend Roundup

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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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Mental Health and Social Stratification

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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos

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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED     We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain j.hoare Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain

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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain j.hoare Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Memorial Day Weekend Sale
9 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion

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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage American polarisation: part 2
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Educated rage

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American polarisation: part 2
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Weekend Roundup

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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Classical Wisdom
The Top 10 Pre-Socratics, ahem, Natural Philosophers Time to Rename "the tyrants of the spirit"?
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The Top 10 Pre-Socratics, ahem, Natural Philosophers

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Time to Rename "the tyrants of the spirit"?
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Euripides

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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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African History...
Internal diasporas and the state in African history The Wangara chronicle, one of West Africa's oldest surviving historical texts composed around 1650,...
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Internal diasporas and the state in African history

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The Wangara chronicle, one of West Africa's oldest surviving historical texts composed around 1650, contains an interesting account explaining the migration of a group of scholars from medieval Malī against the wishes of its ruler:
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960) Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms...
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Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960)

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Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms of ephemera. There were meant to be used, admired? and then thrown away. Yet many children owned them and there were at least 40 issued between 1950 and 1970 on space themes. If...
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops. And fiddling won't fix it.
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The Machine Stops.

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And fiddling won't fix it.
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History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial Putting Pirates on Trial JamesHoare Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial

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Putting Pirates on Trial JamesHoare Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols They are quite serious, actually.
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A Clash Of Symbols

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They are quite serious, actually.
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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NEW Event
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer? ***Only 15 Seats Left
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?

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***Only 15 Seats Left
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Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy? A Different View of Thucydides
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History as Tragedy?

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A Different View of Thucydides
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows? And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?

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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe *my article for New Lines Magazine
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When Africa discovered Europe

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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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The Last Day of World War One

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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies. And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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NATO's Phantom Armies.

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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Flashbak
The Art of Erotic Ex Libris (NSFW) Ex Libris is a Latin phrase that translates as “from the books”. Also known as bookplates, Ex Libris...
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The Art of Erotic Ex Libris (NSFW)

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Ex Libris is a Latin phrase that translates as “from the books”. Also known as bookplates, Ex Libris were first used in Germany in the 15th Century. These designs are pasted into a book’s inside cover or endpaper as a sign of ownership. The first books were highly valuable and...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s

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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Weekend Roundup Love and Death
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Weekend Roundup

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Love and Death
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Weekend Roundup The Life of Plato
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Weekend Roundup

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The Life of Plato
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965) In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)

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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon     … Continue reading "Strange And...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand

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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown

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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo).     Pierrot...
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903. The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.

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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Genes and social stratification

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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars JamesHoare Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars JamesHoare Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963) More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)

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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children. New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review ‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review JamesHoare Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review

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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review JamesHoare Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians? Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Who speaks of the Armenians?

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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large... For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large Portable Book

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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932) Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
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Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)

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Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir.     When...
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia

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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Hidden History
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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Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd

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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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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history

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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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A complete history of Mogadishu (ca. 1100-1892) Journal of African cities: chapter 16.
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A complete history of Mogadishu (ca. 1100-1892)

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Journal of African cities: chapter 16.
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine... “It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine (1983)

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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923 To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923

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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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An Unreported Murder in East Germany An Unreported Murder in East Germany JamesHoare Thu, 01/23/2025 - 09:16
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An Unreported Murder in East Germany

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An Unreported Murder in East Germany JamesHoare Thu, 01/23/2025 - 09:16
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Lives of Exiles
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Weekend Roundup

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The Lives of Exiles
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
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The three German fears

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Historical origins of the malaise
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Split-Brain: Two Selves in One? We tend to perceive ourselves as something unified and immutable—whether we call it our soul,...
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Split-Brain: Two Selves in One?

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We tend to perceive ourselves as something unified and immutable—whether we call it our soul, essence, or self. Yet, whenever we try to explain it, the questions start. Is it just perception itself? Could it be composed of several elements or even just be an illusion? There has...
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Oops! I did it again... Getting our events straight...
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Oops! I did it again...

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Getting our events straight...
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919) William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)

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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review ‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review JamesHoare Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:21
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‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review

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‘Man-Devil’ by John J. Callanan review JamesHoare Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:21
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture? Not that much, actually.
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?

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Not that much, actually.
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How Can We Handle Anxiety? Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?

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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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The Story of Thebes From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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The Story of Thebes

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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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The World's First Computer The Antikythera Mechanism
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The World's First Computer

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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had...
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Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts

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Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of...
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885) Journal of African cities chapter 5
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)

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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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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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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019

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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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A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873) Journal of African cities chapter 7
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A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)

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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Overcoming Bias
Four Awakenings We start our lives focused on the concrete immediate narrow world around us in space, time, social...
2 weeks ago
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Four Awakenings

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We start our lives focused on the concrete immediate narrow world around us in space, time, social distance, and abstraction.
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10 Myths About the Greek God Dionysus Dionysus was one of the twelve Olympian deities the ancient Greeks believed ruled over the cosmos....
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10 Myths About the Greek God Dionysus

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Dionysus was one of the twelve Olympian deities the ancient Greeks believed ruled over the cosmos. He was the patron god of wine and merriment, credited with the discovery of the grapevine. He was also known to cause madness in those who offended him. Dionysus was commonly...
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review ‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review JamesHoare Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review

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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review JamesHoare Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America JamesHoare Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
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War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America

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War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America JamesHoare Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon! oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!

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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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Ancient “Woodhenge” Discovered in Denmark Newly unearthed evidence of a Stonehenge-like circle in Denmark, which has been dubbed “Woodhenge,”...
a week ago
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Ancient “Woodhenge” Discovered in Denmark

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Newly unearthed evidence of a Stonehenge-like circle in Denmark, which has been dubbed “Woodhenge,” may offer new insights into shared belief systems across Neolithic-era Europe.   “The Timber Circle is a Window into the Past”   According to experts, the recently discovered...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh “The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh

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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis   We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin Still A Living Language?
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The Secret Life of Latin

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Still A Living Language?
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Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of...
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Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire

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Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure JamesHoare Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure

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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure JamesHoare Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)

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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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CrimethInc.
Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE The Trump administration is paving the way for mass deportations by building new prison camps and...
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Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE

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The Trump administration is paving the way for mass deportations by building new prison camps and invoking the Alien Enemies Act, which was used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Motivated by nativism and white nationalism, Steven Miller and...
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Weekend Roundup The Nature of Love
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Weekend Roundup

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The Nature of Love
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally? Here are a few modest ideas.
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?

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Here are a few modest ideas.
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What Counts as a Planet? What Counts as a Planet? JamesHoare Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:24
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What Counts as a Planet?

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What Counts as a Planet? JamesHoare Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:24
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One Spot Left: In Search of Homer Book Now to join me on Cephalonia
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One Spot Left: In Search of Homer

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Book Now to join me on Cephalonia
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg

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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important? Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Why are MYTHS Important?

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Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple

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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews ‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews j.hoare Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews

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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews j.hoare Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Res Obscura
AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research

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A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Early Years of Jesus
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Weekend Roundup

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The Early Years of Jesus
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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Universities as factories

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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.

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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998 In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998

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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Who Is Ruby Bridges? On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to attend an...
3 weeks ago
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Who Is Ruby Bridges?

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On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to attend an all-white public school in the South. Escorted by federal marshals through crowds of segregationists, Ruby stepped onto her new school’s campus and into the history books. Ruby is...
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Harold Fisk Maps the History of the Mississippi River, 1944 In 1944, Harold Fisk was a geologist and cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers...
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Harold Fisk Maps the History of the Mississippi River, 1944

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In 1944, Harold Fisk was a geologist and cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers when he made these 15 maps to illustrate the government’s “Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River”. Fisk’s ingenious maps shows a different...
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW) In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in  shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children? Bringing History to the Future
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Why Should We Care About Children?

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Bringing History to the Future
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TheCollector
4 Must-Read Works by Søren Kierkegaard, Father of Existentialism Søren Kierkegaard is largely considered to be the father of existentialism. He wrote extensively...
4 days ago
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4 Must-Read Works by Søren Kierkegaard, Father of Existentialism

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Søren Kierkegaard is largely considered to be the father of existentialism. He wrote extensively about subjects such as the human condition, despair, anxiety about existence, and how to achieve an authentic and actualized Self. Kierkegaard never shied away from the messy parts of...
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.

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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Summary of changes for March 2023

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom. 100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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TheCollector
The Mind-Body Problem & Consciousness: Dualism vs. Materialism Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something...
2 weeks ago
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The Mind-Body Problem & Consciousness: Dualism vs. Materialism

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Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something immaterial. The counterpart to this is materialism, which posits that both the mind and body are composed of the same material, physical substance. There is much more to each...
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war? Or does war have its virtues?
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?

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Or does war have its virtues?
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Classical Wisdom
Dialogues of Plato Conversations Across Time
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Dialogues of Plato

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Conversations Across Time
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
5 months ago
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky

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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism. Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
9 months ago
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.

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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do? Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
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What Would Socrates Do?

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Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
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History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?

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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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The lone wolves of Germany Why weak states resort to collective punishment of citizens
2 weeks ago
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The lone wolves of Germany

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Why weak states resort to collective punishment of citizens
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What Was the Role of Judges in Ancient Israel Before It Became a Monarchy? The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its protagonist, is probably the most...
2 weeks ago
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What Was the Role of Judges in Ancient Israel Before It Became a Monarchy?

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The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its protagonist, is probably the most well-known of all stories in the Hebrew Bible. Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, epitomized by the siege of Jericho, is also retold often. Similarly, David’s slaying of Goliath, his flight...
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death? How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death? j.hoare Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?

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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death? j.hoare Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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The Death of Caspar Hauser The Death of Caspar Hauser j.hoare Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser

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The Death of Caspar Hauser j.hoare Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure? Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure? j.hoare Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?

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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure? j.hoare Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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TheCollector
Why European Militaries Collectively Downsized After the Cold War Throughout the Cold War, European militaries were very well-armed and capable of fighting intense...
2 weeks ago
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Why European Militaries Collectively Downsized After the Cold War

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Throughout the Cold War, European militaries were very well-armed and capable of fighting intense conflicts over an extended period. Centuries of warfare on the European continent had conditioned people throughout Europe that war was a fact of life. Yet by the 1990s and early...
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Norway Are immigrants overrepresented in crime in Norway? And why?
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Immigration and crime: Norway

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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime in Norway? And why?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won? The Silence of the Elephants
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?

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The Silence of the Elephants
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for February

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot

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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency. No, not that Agency.
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Little People With Agency.

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No, not that Agency.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Ancient Podcasts
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Weekend Roundup

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Ancient Podcasts
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos “As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
a year ago
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos

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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz     We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future. With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.

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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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The Universe of...
Just give the man the fish! Last week I complained about a Math SE pathology in which OP asks a simple question, and instead of...
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Just give the man the fish!

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Last week I complained about a Math SE pathology in which OP asks a simple question, and instead of an answer gets an attempt at a socratic dialog. I ended by saying: I have been banging this drum for decades, but I will cut the scroll here. Expect a followup article. Seeing...
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Wrong Side of...
Democracy vs liberalism in the heart of Europe ‘All state authority is derived from the people’
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Democracy vs liberalism in the heart of Europe

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‘All state authority is derived from the people’
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower j.hoare Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower

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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower j.hoare Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Celebrate Cicero!
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Celebrate Cicero!
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup History and Myth
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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History and Myth
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
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On general futility of political discussions with people

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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ... And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
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Things Are Falling Apart ...

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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Wrong Side of...
Our philanthropists and their oligarchs Some foreign billionaires seem to be welcome in British politics
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Our philanthropists and their oligarchs

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Some foreign billionaires seem to be welcome in British politics
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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Dionysus

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The God of Wine!
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Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband Should you meet your heroes?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband

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Should you meet your heroes?
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weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars A history of the monastic high life
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars

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A history of the monastic high life
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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...
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Summary of changes for December

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
a year ago
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To all the newspapers I loved

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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Classical Wisdom
Ancients After Alexander The Hellenistic Age
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Ancients After Alexander

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The Hellenistic Age
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967) A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)

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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome And Her Controversial Religion
10 months ago
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The Mother Goddess of Rome

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And Her Controversial Religion
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for October

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn). uxn,...
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972 For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972

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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm Power laws in criminal behavior
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When few do great harm

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Power laws in criminal behavior
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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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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981

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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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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s

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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ? Another of my essays in French.
2 months ago
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Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?

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Another of my essays in French.
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything! Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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This Changes Everything!

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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials JamesHoare Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials

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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials JamesHoare Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
8 months ago
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter

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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student ...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Socrates' Wayward Student

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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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No More Heroes.

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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Hebrews About? Some refer to the Book of Hebrews as the “better book.” It compares the Old Testament ceremonial...
3 days ago
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What Is the Book of Hebrews About?

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Some refer to the Book of Hebrews as the “better book.” It compares the Old Testament ceremonial system and its fulfillment, highlighting how the fulfillment is, in every instance, better than the type that pointed to the antitype. It is arguably the best link between Old...
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History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review ‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review

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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
a year ago
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s

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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968 The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
3 months ago
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968

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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding.     These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter? Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
a year ago
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Does Marcus Matter?

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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Weekend Roundup Last Chance!
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Weekend Roundup

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Last Chance!
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?

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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982 Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982

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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods

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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898. Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.

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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa. Africa's past carved in ivory
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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.

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Africa's past carved in ivory
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire JamesHoare Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
3 months ago
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire

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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire JamesHoare Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685) “A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three...
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Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)

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“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three fundamentals, that is, bases: the physical, the mathematical, and the practical or mechanical” – Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium     The German student of light...
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review ‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review JamesHoare Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review

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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review JamesHoare Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Petersburg? Despite having much of its most valuable territory retaken by the summer of 1864, the Confederacy...
2 weeks ago
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Who Won the Siege of Petersburg?

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Despite having much of its most valuable territory retaken by the summer of 1864, the Confederacy continued to resist. If it could hold on, perhaps it could win the war by wearing down the Union enough to seek peace terms. Thus, new general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant needed to...
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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How to Steal From Homer

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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
3 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Classics Gifts!
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them. But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
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It's All About Them.

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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
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The Sense Of An Ending.

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But right back where we started from.
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Open Culture
Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922 We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic...
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Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922

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We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The school’s relationships with artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo...
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The Stroop Effect: Can Your Brain Glitch? The Stroop effect is one of the most fascinating discoveries of experimental psychology that...
a week ago
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The Stroop Effect: Can Your Brain Glitch?

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The Stroop effect is one of the most fascinating discoveries of experimental psychology that uncovers how our brain processes information. Named after psychologist John Ridley Stroop, it reveals how cognitive interferences can make seemingly simple cognitive tasks surprisingly...
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
2 months ago
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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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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e

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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Korea’s War of Prisoners Korea’s War of Prisoners JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners

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Korea’s War of Prisoners JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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For the Love of the Classics Valentine's Gifts
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For the Love of the Classics

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Valentine's Gifts
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Egypt Announces First Royal Tomb Discovery Since King Tut The royal tomb of King Tutankhamun, located in Egypt’s famous Valley of the Kings, was discovered in...
2 weeks ago
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Egypt Announces First Royal Tomb Discovery Since King Tut

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The royal tomb of King Tutankhamun, located in Egypt’s famous Valley of the Kings, was discovered in 1922. Now, for the first time since then, another royal tomb has been unearthed in Egypt: that of King Thutmose II. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiques has dubbed the...
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review ‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review JamesHoare Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review

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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review JamesHoare Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plato Vs Aristotle
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Weekend Roundup

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Plato Vs Aristotle
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Bodhidharma: The Legendary Founder of Kung Fu & Zen (Myth vs Facts) Zen Buddhism’s enigmatic teachings and its masters have influenced East Asian art, philosophy, and...
2 weeks ago
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Bodhidharma: The Legendary Founder of Kung Fu & Zen (Myth vs Facts)

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Zen Buddhism’s enigmatic teachings and its masters have influenced East Asian art, philosophy, and poetry for over a thousand years. However, the entire tradition traces itself back to one legendary man, credited not only with bringing Zen to China but also with the development...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW) “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)

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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986)     Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Why Socrates Matters New Event: November 22
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Why Socrates Matters

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New Event: November 22
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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...
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982

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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...
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Death of the King of Siam Death of the King of Siam JamesHoare Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam

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Death of the King of Siam JamesHoare Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature

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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Happy Holidays From Anya, Joel and Frida
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Happy Holidays

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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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Hidden History
The Ocarina The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina

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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
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Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children

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Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
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Beware Value Dashboards

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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Things Don't Always Get Better.

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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City “The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City

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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis   We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Classical Wisdom
What’s in a name? Is Re-labeling a distraction or disruption?
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What’s in a name?

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Is Re-labeling a distraction or disruption?
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Weekend Roundup Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weekend Roundup

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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights

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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Going to Pieces Slowly... And then what?
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Going to Pieces Slowly...

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And then what?
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How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1 Image via Wikimedia Commons How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies...
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How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1

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Image via Wikimedia Commons How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies that 77 million Americans voted into the White House a criminal reality TV star from NBC, one groomed by a reality TV producer from CBS, who then appointed his Cabinet from Fox and X...
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The Search for the Historical Buddha The Search for the Historical Buddha j.hoare Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha

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The Search for the Historical Buddha j.hoare Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Should We Own Stuff?

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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Brian Eno Attempts to Figure Out What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel...
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Brian Eno Attempts to Figure Out What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A

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Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel Lecture (previously featured here on Open Culture). But he was also thinking about it three decades ago, as evidenced by A Year with Swollen Appendices, his diary of the year 1995...
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‘Friends in Youth’ by Minoo Dinshaw review ‘Friends in Youth’ by Minoo Dinshaw review JamesHoare Wed, 02/26/2025 - 09:00
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‘Friends in Youth’ by Minoo Dinshaw review

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‘Friends in Youth’ by Minoo Dinshaw review JamesHoare Wed, 02/26/2025 - 09:00
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review ‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review JamesHoare Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review

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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review JamesHoare Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review ‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review JamesHoare Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review

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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review JamesHoare Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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The Scholar's Stage
Dionysus Against the Daoists IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS a contrast is sometimes made between the Dionysian and the...
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Dionysus Against the Daoists

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IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS a contrast is sometimes made between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Made famous by Nietzsche, this schema was first used to describe the thought and art of Ancient Greece. On the Apollonian end we have all that is rational, intentional,...
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy? The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?

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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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The Year's Midnight. Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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The Year's Midnight.

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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition. Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.

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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun JamesHoare Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun

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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun JamesHoare Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments) Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)

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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans JamesHoare Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans

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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans JamesHoare Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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Overcoming Bias
When They Hear Less Than You Say Something must be done.
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When They Hear Less Than You Say

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Something must be done.
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Keeping it in the Family Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Keeping it in the Family

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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance JamesHoare Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance

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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance JamesHoare Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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A Wasting Asset? Europe turns away from America.
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A Wasting Asset?

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Europe turns away from America.
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius! A Celebration of Virtue
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!

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A Celebration of Virtue
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs The Roman Catholic War on Wigs JamesHoare Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs

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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs JamesHoare Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah JamesHoare Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah

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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah JamesHoare Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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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 –...
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.

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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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Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand In a letter dated May 31, 1960, Flannery O’Connor, the author best known for her classic story, “A...
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Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand

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In a letter dated May 31, 1960, Flannery O’Connor, the author best known for her classic story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (listen to her read the story here) penned a letter to her friend, the playwright Maryat Lee. It begins rather abruptly, likely because it’s responding to...
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion? Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion? JamesHoare Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?

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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion? JamesHoare Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Weekend Roundup Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Weekend Roundup

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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity

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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Curbing the Power of the Popes Curbing the Power of the Popes JamesHoare Fri, 02/21/2025 - 07:00
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Curbing the Power of the Popes

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Curbing the Power of the Popes JamesHoare Fri, 02/21/2025 - 07:00
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth Measuring the Shape of the Earth JamesHoare Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth

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Odysseus in the Underworld Real or Fantasy?
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Odysseus in the Underworld

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Real or Fantasy?
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The Complex and Contentious History of Crimea The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past...
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The Complex and Contentious History of Crimea

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The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of 2014, when it was annexed from Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the state has been labeled as occupied by some and liberated by others.   This, however,...
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Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting...
2 weeks ago
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Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History

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During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting communism around the world. The issue of US arms sales to foreign militaries accused of human rights violations has been the subject of intense debate in the American political arena...
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Weekend Roundup Featuring Stephen Fry!
8 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’ Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK,   Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’

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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK,   Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894) Urbanism in the forest region.
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)

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Urbanism in the forest region.
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive “We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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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...
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store

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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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Devant la guerre

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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles “My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles

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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death     Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Upcoming Events So you're in the know...
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Upcoming Events

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So you're in the know...
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"

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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Weekend Roundup Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Weekend Roundup

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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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A Day in the Life of a Medieval Woman in England “Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives...
a week ago
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A Day in the Life of a Medieval Woman in England

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“Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not reflect the reality of the time but is an interpretation of a later age that sought to create a divide between the enlightened Classical world and their...
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross. One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.

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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Observations From India In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The...
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Observations From India

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In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see things, India’s relationship with America has been mediated by hostile parties for too...
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond. uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.

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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Weekend Roundup The Mother of Rome
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Weekend Roundup

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The Mother of Rome
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Forgotten Gods Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Forgotten Gods

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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review ‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review j.hoare Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review

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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review j.hoare Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970) From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
11 months ago
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)

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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Open Culture
Watch the Sci-Fi Short Film “I’m Not a Robot”: Winner of a 2025 Academy Award Victoria Warmerdam, the writer and director of the short film, “I’m Not a Robot,” summarizes the...
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Watch the Sci-Fi Short Film “I’m Not a Robot”: Winner of a 2025 Academy Award

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Victoria Warmerdam, the writer and director of the short film, “I’m Not a Robot,” summarizes the plot of her 22-minute film as follows: The film “tells the story of Lara, a music producer who spirals into an existential crisis after repeatedly failing a CAPTCHA test—leading her...
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974) So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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Undersea Base (1974)

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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future.  I recently found she had also...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Animals of the Ancient World
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Weekend Roundup

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Animals of the Ancient World
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Flashbak
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...
8 months ago
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years

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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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Wrong Side of...
Crop rotation in the 14th century The Year of the Plague, part 4
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Crop rotation in the 14th century

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The Year of the Plague, part 4
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries

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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics? Is it good to question everything?
11 months ago
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Should We Be Skeptics?

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Is it good to question everything?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Aristotle on Friendship
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III

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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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How Can We Love Ourselves?

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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981) In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
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Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)

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In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023 Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023

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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963? An experiment with historical simulation
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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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History Today Feed
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review ‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review JamesHoare Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review

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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review JamesHoare Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times

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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish “The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
10 months ago
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish

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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935     In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Flashbak
The Talking Parrot Tells All: When Madame Tussaud’s Caught Fire, 1925 “Criminals represented in the Chamber of Horrors, however, will have no feelings in the matter, as...
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The Talking Parrot Tells All: When Madame Tussaud’s Caught Fire, 1925

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“Criminals represented in the Chamber of Horrors, however, will have no feelings in the matter, as they are all dead” – Report on the fire as Madame Tussaud’s, London 18 March 1925   The fire that tore threw London attraction Madame Tussaud’s on 18 March 1925 melted the famous...
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions) Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
3 months ago
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)

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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV JamesHoare Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV JamesHoare Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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On the Spot: Levi Roach On the Spot: Levi Roach JamesHoare Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach

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On the Spot: Levi Roach JamesHoare Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic JamesHoare Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic

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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic JamesHoare Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Open Culture
How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend We can all remember seeing images of medieval Europeans wearing pointy shoes, but most of us have...
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How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend

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We can all remember seeing images of medieval Europeans wearing pointy shoes, but most of us have paid scant attention to the shoes themselves. That may be for the best, since the more we dwell on one fact of life in the Middle Ages or another, the more we imagine how...
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth? In politics, well, it depends.
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That's The Truth?

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In politics, well, it depends.
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CrimethInc.
Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of...
2 weeks ago
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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

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As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, Democrats remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Julio-Claudians
7 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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The Julio-Claudians
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Weekend Roundup Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review ‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review JamesHoare Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review

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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review JamesHoare Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931) On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
2 months ago
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)

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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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Trying to Understand...
Before The Past Was New. Why should we bother trying to understand?
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Before The Past Was New.

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Why should we bother trying to understand?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Navarino: The Last Battle of the Age of Sail The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships...
2 weeks ago
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The Battle of Navarino: The Last Battle of the Age of Sail

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The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships took to the seas, two great masses of wooden sailing ships clashed in one last fleet action with the fate of an empire on the line. For a final time fleets of sailing ships impacted...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a week ago
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Summary of changes for February 2025

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Dinghy gelcoat, Week 10, Week 11, and Week 12 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Updated solar with new pictures and corrected information...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary of changes for March

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Lost and Found
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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Lost and Found
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African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history. For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
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The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.

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For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
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Events Schedule *Time Correction for Wednesday
a year ago
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Events Schedule

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a year ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
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Classical Wisdom
Greek Mythology's Greatest Love Story Cupid and Psyche
3 weeks ago
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Greek Mythology's Greatest Love Story

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Cupid and Psyche
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
a year ago
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Crime in the USA

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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric The Power of Persuasion
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Aristotle's Rhetoric

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The Power of Persuasion
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