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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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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
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Dreams of Space -...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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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...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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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...
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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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...
9 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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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...
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Who Was George Eliot?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
6 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
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Historical origins of the malaise
TheCollector
Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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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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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
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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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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