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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Arguing with the Dead
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Empress Theodora
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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What Is the Ides of March?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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The Electoral College Explained
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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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...
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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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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Hundred Rabbits
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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