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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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Hundred Rabbits
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TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
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TheCollector
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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A Collection of...
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TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Trying to Understand...
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TheCollector
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Classical Wisdom
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The End of the World?
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History Today Review of the Year
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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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2 days ago
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
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Tolkien and Plato
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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A Collection of...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
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TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
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Dreams of Space -...
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A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
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Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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How important are dreams?
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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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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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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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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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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