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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Overcoming Bias
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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The Death of Clive of India
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Patterns in Humanity
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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In Defence of Boring Books
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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over a year ago
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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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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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
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Summary of changes for December
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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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".
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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How the CCP is Closing China
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TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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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.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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government in central Africa.
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
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11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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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...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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TheCollector
Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
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TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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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.
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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...
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
a month ago
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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TheCollector
Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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A Brief History of Chile
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
a year ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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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,...
11 months ago
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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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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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...
9 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
5 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Flashbak
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...
8 months ago
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...
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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