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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Petra and Passports
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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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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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Tolkien and Plato
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
Patterns in Humanity
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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What Was the First Written Language?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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People, States and Borders.
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Out Of Control.
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Rome's Worst General?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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TheCollector
The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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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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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
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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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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3 months ago
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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5 months ago
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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a year ago
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
weird medieval guys
Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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8 months ago
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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6 months ago
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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3 weeks ago
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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a week ago
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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a year ago
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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3 months ago
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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7 months ago
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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9 months ago
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 months ago
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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11 months ago
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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4 months ago
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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7 months ago
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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5 months ago
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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a month ago
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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a year ago
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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a month ago
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
a month ago
“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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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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a year ago
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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5 months ago
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
a week ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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3 weeks ago
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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a year ago
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
3 days ago
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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a year ago
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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5 months ago
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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3 months ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
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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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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6 months ago
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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3 months ago
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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9 months ago
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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3 months ago
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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6 months ago
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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11 months ago
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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9 months ago
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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