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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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What Is Voguing?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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The (history of) spice must flow
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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The Two Trojan Wars
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Summary of changes for January
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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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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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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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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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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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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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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