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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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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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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
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Is more complicated than you might think.
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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Brushing for Britain
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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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.
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Eternal Glory
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Forgotten Gods
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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No More Heroes.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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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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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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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...
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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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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Beware Value Dashboards
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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Young Technician December, 1957
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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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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Stoicism and Stress
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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