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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Dreams of Space -...
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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over a year ago
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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How the CCP is Closing China
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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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...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
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The Birth of Ovid
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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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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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
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But who is prepared to admit it?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
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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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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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...
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Beyond Stoicism
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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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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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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