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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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African History...
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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JamesHoare
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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JamesHoare
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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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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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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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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