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Summary Of Changes
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Plato On Knowledge
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
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Columbine 25 Years On
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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