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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
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Understanding political violence.
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
2 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
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But what about the rest of us?
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Philosophy and Children
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
10 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“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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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
a month ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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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)
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
2 months ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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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...
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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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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Centuries of Childhood
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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The Essential Greeks
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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What Is an Antipope?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Global Inequality...
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Ancient Greek Art
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Summary of changes for September
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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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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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Summary of changes for July
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over 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
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Fate and Free Will
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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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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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Summary of changes for May 2024
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7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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