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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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What’s the History of Gin?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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