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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
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TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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How to Save Democracy
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
5 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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TheCollector
The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Classical Wisdom
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Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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People, States and Borders.
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4 months ago
Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
2 weeks ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Story of Thebes
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Flashbak
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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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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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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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Spartan Training
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Summary of changes for October
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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