African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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The Immortals
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Artemisia of Caria
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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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.
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Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Freedom by North-West
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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A Few Spots Left
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
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My interview with "Atlantico"
Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
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.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle's Politics
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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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
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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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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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Secret of the Stoics
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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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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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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History Today Review of the Year
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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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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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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What Is an Antipope?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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