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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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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,”...
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Another Of My Essays In French
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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What Is Solipsism?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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The (history of) spice must flow
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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I Dare You...
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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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...
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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My Substack in Other Languages.
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
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Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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6 months ago
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Wrong Side of...
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a year ago
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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JamesHoare
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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No More Heroes.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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