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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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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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Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Overcoming Bias
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Getting our events straight...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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How can we train Resilience?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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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...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Death of the King of Siam
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
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
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
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Res Obscura
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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