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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Should Death Concern Us?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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The Machine Stops.
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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6 months ago
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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What Was Négritude?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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The Year's Midnight.
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Ancient Anxiety
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
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a year ago
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
10 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Classical Wisdom
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Classical Wisdom Books
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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The Electoral College Explained
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
TheCollector
What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Classical Wisdom
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The Nature of Love
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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History Today Feed
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
7 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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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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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
10 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Monsters of Mythology
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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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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Who Was Tertullian?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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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...
11 months ago
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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