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A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Love And War And Status
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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4 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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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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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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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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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
History Today Feed
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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