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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Summary of changes for January 2023
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Haile Selassie: Divinity or Despot?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
2 months ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Summary of changes for April
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over a year ago
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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What Is Philippians About?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
6 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Victorian Fashion: Were Corsets Really That Uncomfortable?
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Overcoming Bias
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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Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Are You Hot in That? A Brief History of Medieval Armor
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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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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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
3 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
4 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
7 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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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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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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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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What Is Colossians About?
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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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
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Lightning Strikes: William Jennings’ Early Photographs of Elusive Electricity
Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of...
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Anglo-American photographer William Jennings (1860–1946) is best known for his aerial pictures of his adopted city of Philadelphia and the aeronautical industry, and photographs of lightning. Setting out to prove “lightning bolts were not of the zig-zag form pictured by artists”,...
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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10 Things to Do at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
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In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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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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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Wrong Side of...
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
10 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Patterns in Humanity
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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A Collection of...
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a year ago
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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No End Of A Lesson.
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Wrong Side of...
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The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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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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‘The Tree Hunters’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
12 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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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