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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
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A re-run--
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TheCollector
Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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A Brief History of Chile
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Forgotten Gods
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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A Collection of...
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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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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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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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...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Summary of changes for April 2023
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Who Was George Hodel?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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Teach Your Children ....
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wrong Side of...
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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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...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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