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.
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
6 months ago
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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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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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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What Is Solipsism?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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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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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“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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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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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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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
7 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
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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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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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.
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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What Was the First Written Language?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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a year ago
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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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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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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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
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...
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Global Inequality...
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
6 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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