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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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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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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Blindspots and Biographies
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Classical Wisdom
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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A History of the United States Senate
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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African History...
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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African History...
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Dreams of Space -...
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over a year ago
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Dreams of Space -...
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over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
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Was Alexander Great?
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A Collection of...
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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A Collection of...
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4 months ago
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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African History...
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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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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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Res Obscura
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TheCollector
The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Trying to Understand...
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a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Classical Wisdom
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History and Myth
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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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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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Dry Toilet Installation
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Mole Rocket (1965)
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over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Blast Off (1973)
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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internet in paradise
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Nature in Greek Myth
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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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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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
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a year ago
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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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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