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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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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...
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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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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...
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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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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They...
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Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
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Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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What Was the Chaco War?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
2 months ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
11 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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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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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Open Culture
Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few,...
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Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology. That’s not to say there aren’t still economic barriers aplenty for the struggling artist, but true independence is not an...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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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?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Pol Pot: Overseer of the Cambodian Genocide
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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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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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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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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