Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Classical Wisdom
Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
4 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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What’s the History of Gin?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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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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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
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.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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