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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
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And how does it reflect on us?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Eternal Glory
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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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...
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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