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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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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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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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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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What Is the History of Halloween?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Global Inequality...
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Socrates and the Soul
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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What Is Theodicy?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Hundred Rabbits
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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How Iran Won the West
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
5 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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What Is Capoeira?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Trump and the Rise of Asia
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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