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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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Sex Before Sex Education
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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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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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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No End Of A Lesson.
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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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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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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CrimethInc.
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Overcoming Bias
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
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Dreams of Space -...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Patterns in Humanity
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
Classical Wisdom
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Tolkien and Plato
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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What Is Capoeira?
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What Is Populism?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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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.
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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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.
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Who Was George Hodel?
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