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Who Was Eusebius?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
6 months ago
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
11 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
Flashbak
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...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
a year ago
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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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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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
a week ago
But is there anything there?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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