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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
Flashbak
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...
a year ago
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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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
3 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
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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
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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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
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
4 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
6 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
8 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
10 months ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
3 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
a week ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
9 months ago
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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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)
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
a year ago
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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What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
a week ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
2 weeks ago
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