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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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What Was Négritude?
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
2 months ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist...
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Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of the people who lived and worked there. In the 1970s, Sheila arrived in London...
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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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...
a year 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...
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Watch The Alphabet, David Lynch’s horrific 1968 short,
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more...
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“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more they’re going to help each other” – David Lynch David Lynch’s 1968 short The Alphabet was inspired by his first wife Peggy’s niece reciting her ABCs during a nightmare then waking...
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Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
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This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
9 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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12 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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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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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Who Was Julian?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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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...
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How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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World Monuments Fund Lists Moon as Endangered Heritage Site
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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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...
9 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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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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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...
10 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...
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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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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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Secrets of the Deep: What Is the History of the Mary Celeste?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
3 weeks ago
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
10 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
3 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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What Were Hobart’s Funnies?
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
7 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
9 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
a year ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
10 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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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...
2 months ago
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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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Texas
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
2 months ago
Europe turns away from America.
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
6 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
11 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
6 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
2 months ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
10 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
4 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
2 weeks ago
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
3 days ago
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
6 months ago
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
7 months ago
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...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a month ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
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What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
a month ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Discover This Historic Massachusetts Town Just Beyond Boston’s Reach
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Collector’s Guide for the Art Fair
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
8 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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8 months ago
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
an African portrait of an African society
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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