Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
a year ago
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
4 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
7 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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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...
a year 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...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
3 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
a year ago
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
5 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
2 months ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
8 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Texas
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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...
TheCollector
How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
6 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
a month ago
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
5 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
7 months ago
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
a year ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
7 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
5 months ago
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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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...
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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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
8 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
4 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
8 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
2 months ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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7 African Myths About Animals
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
2 months ago
An indispensable organization
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
7 months ago
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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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Is the Book of Acts About in the Bible?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
8 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
7 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
5 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
11 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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Liberation of the Oppressed: What Is Liberation Theology?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
5 months ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
What Is the Philosopher’s Stone?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
10 months ago
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
7 months ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
5 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
a week ago
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
5 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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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...
6 days ago
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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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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What Is Year 1 of History? Comparing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Conventions
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
a month ago
Sex Before Sex Education
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
10 months ago
“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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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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The Popol Vuh: A Maya Myth Told in Dance and Song
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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...
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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
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave: What Can They Tell Us About the Past?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Flashbak
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...
a year ago
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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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
9 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating...
“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana...
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“This is fire season in Los Angeles,” Joan Didion once wrote, relating how every year “the Santa Ana winds start blowing down through the passes, and the relative humidity drops to figures like seven or six or three per cent, and the bougainvillea starts rattling in the driveway,...
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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