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Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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a year ago
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7 months ago
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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5 months ago
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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What Was Négritude?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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9 months ago
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
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...
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Dionysus
The God of Wine!
2 months ago
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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4 months ago
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Who Was George Eliot?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
9 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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4 months ago
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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8 months ago
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
7 months ago
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Who Was Averroes?
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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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
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Flashbak
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...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
6 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
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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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
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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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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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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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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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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...
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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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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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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...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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