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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
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The Moon
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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History Today Review of the Year
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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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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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Love and Death
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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The Ancient Novel
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Global Inequality...
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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CrimethInc.
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
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Is more complicated than you might think.
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Res Obscura
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Most of them are not from 2023
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
2 weeks ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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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...
9 months ago
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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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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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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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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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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