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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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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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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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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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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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What Is the Will to Power?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Dreams of Space -...
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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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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The Death of Clive of India
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The First Stoic
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
History Today Feed
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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