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A History of the United States Senate
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
Hundred Rabbits
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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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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Ancient Atomists
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How Did Socrates Die?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
6 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Flashbak
The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”...
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh In The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors we look at writers who communicated in long hand, and sometimes wrote their books in the same manner. For...
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
Open Culture
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a...
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We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a number anchored in science. Rather, it’s a product of marketing. According to a Harvard medical website, that figure goes back to “1965, when a Japanese company made a device named...
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
2 months ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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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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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
Flashbak
A Trip To Butlin’s In 1982
‘Our true intent is all for your delight’… – Butlin’s holiday camp motto Photographer Barry...
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‘Our true intent is all for your delight’… – Butlin’s holiday camp motto Photographer Barry Lewis takes us on a holiday to Butlin’s Skegness in 1982. This was first ever Billy Butlin holiday camp. It opened at Skegness in 1936 – and still exists today. Lewis had worked for...
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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What Is Year 1 of History? Comparing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Conventions
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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What Is Theodicy?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
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Yves Tanguy: 6 Facts About the Outstanding Surrealist
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Explore Frida Kahlo’s Composition Techniques in 6 Works
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
7 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
CrimethInc.
Capitalism Thrives on Death—Death to Capitalism : Two Posters
Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we...
2 months ago
Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we present two posters—”Capitalism Is the Dance of Death” and “Capitalism Thrives on Death.” Learn how to make wheatpaste and cover the walls of your community in these!
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Open Culture
Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in...
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been...
4 days ago
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
11 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Trying to Understand...
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
10 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
2 months ago
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat...
a week ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Before we dive...
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Mangal Pandey: The Spark That Ignited the Sepoy Mutiny
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
a year ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
8 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
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