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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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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...
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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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...
TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
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Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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How to Save Democracy
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TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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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...
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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The End of the World?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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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...
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TheCollector
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian
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9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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TheCollector
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WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
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History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
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TheCollector
Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Advice from the Ancients
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
A Collection of...
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...
7 months ago
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...
Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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TheCollector
Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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What Is Capoeira?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Origins of Latin Literature
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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