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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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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...
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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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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Wrong Side of...
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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TheCollector
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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TheCollector
How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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You And Whose Army?
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Res Obscura
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Philosophy and Children
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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TheCollector
Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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What Government Governs Best?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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What Is Thatcherism?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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TheCollector
The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
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The Ancient Novel
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Fate and Free Will
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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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.
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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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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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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