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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
Wrong Side of...
Britain is institutionally 'anti-racist'
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
5 days ago
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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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”
3 weeks ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
TheCollector
Olaf Tryggvason: The Christian Viking’s Life & Death
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
2 months ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Flashbak
Travels in the Air, 1871
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above...
a week ago
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above the infinite expanse of sky” – James Glaisher, Travels In The Air, 1871 Travels in the Air tells the story of balloon travel since the first ‘aerostatic’ flight by the...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
a year ago
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
4 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
Flashbak
A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’...
2 weeks ago
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’ Bookshop, where as a teenager writer Alan Bennett worked part-time job. We pop into the County Arcade, walking amid the mahogany shop fronts, pink marble columns, and cast iron...
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
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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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
5 days ago
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
5 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
2 months ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Flashbak
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...
a week ago
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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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
4 months ago
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...
Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
2 weeks ago
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
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.
TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
4 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
4 weeks ago
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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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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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
3 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Open Culture
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...
6 days ago
“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 Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Colorado
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
8 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
4 months ago
Banned Book Week Begins...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
a year ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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2 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
4 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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When Was the First Crusade?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
2 months ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Secrets of the Deep: What Is the History of the Mary Celeste?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Romania
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
6 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
2 months ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Classical Wisdom
Events Schedule
*Time Correction for Wednesday
a year ago
*Time Correction for Wednesday
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
8 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
10 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
8 months ago
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
3 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
a month ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
a year ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
6 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
8 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
6 hours ago
Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:03
TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Pol Pot: Overseer of the Cambodian Genocide
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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