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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
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The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which “skeletons hoof and frolic,” the peak of whose hilarity “is reached when one skeleton plays the spine of another in xylophone fashion, using a pair of thigh bones as hammers.” The...
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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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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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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What Languages Are on the Verge of Disappearing?
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts
Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had...
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Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of...
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Centuries of Childhood
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Global Inequality...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Free French Bombers Over France
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Does Marcus Matter?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
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Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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The History of Braga, Portugal & 16 Must-See Historic Sites
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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...
a year ago
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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