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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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African History...
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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The international system, that is.
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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A history of the monastic high life
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
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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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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
History Today Feed
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Who speaks of the Armenians?
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
a year ago
Power laws in criminal behavior
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Happy Holidays
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Global Inequality...
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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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...
3 months ago
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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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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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....
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“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...
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
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
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...
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
5 months ago
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Last Chance!
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
a year ago
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Overcoming Bias
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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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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