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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Many of the...
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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And How Do We Learn?
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Nothing connects.
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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A Clash Of Symbols
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Death of the King of Siam
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Gods Vs Titans
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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