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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
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What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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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...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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10 Things to Do at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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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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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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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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The Life of Aristotle
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
7 months ago
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
2 months ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Understanding Yourself Through Jung: A Guide to Individuation & Self-Discovery
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
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Trump as a tool of history
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Hagia Sophia to Open Mysterious Underground Tunnels to Visitors
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
TheCollector
Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
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While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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...
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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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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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10 Must-Visit Historic Sites in San Diego
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
The future belongs to them.
yesterday
The future belongs to them.
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
4 weeks ago
But is there anything there?
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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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...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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A brief recap of my 2024 posts
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
2 months ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
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Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
6 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
Classical Wisdom
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Blindspots and Biographies
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Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
How Did the Victorian Dead Body Trade Operate?
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
8 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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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...
8 months ago
“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....
TheCollector
Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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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...
8 months ago
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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‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review
‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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