TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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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...
11 months ago
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...
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
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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TheCollector
Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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TheCollector
How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
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TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
TheCollector
The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Classical Wisdom
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Origins of Stoicism
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TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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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...
Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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My Substack in Other Languages.
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The Roman Socrates
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Arguing with the Dead
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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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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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Res Obscura
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Rules, Rules Rules
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Cosmodrome (1987)
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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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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Why Socrates Matters
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Art of the Etruscans
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Trying to Understand...
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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