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How to Save Democracy
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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We left our mooring at...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Death of the King of Siam
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
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TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
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11 months ago
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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...
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Classical Wisdom
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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How Did Socrates Die?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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What Is Capoeira?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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What Is Gnosticism?
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
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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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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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...
11 months 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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Who Was Averroes?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
2 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
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History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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