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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
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Understanding political violence.
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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What Are Conlangs?
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History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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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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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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9 months ago
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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a year ago
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
7 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
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a year ago
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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a year ago
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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6 months ago
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Important Notification
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8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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a year ago
Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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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...
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
8 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
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...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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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...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
Flashbak
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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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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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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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Who Was Eusebius?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
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5 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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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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