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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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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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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Summary Of Changes
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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an island in the maelstrom
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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History Today Feed
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Flashbak
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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What Is Nestorianism?
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African History...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Patterns in Humanity
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
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'If we can't...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
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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...
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Stoicism and Stress
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Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Summary of changes for January
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Beyond Stoicism
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Another Of My Essays In French
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Weekend Roundup
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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War Is Complicated.
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Summary of changes for January 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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Weekend Roundup
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Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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