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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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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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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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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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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Monsters and Myths
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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The Machine Stops.
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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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.
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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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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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
7 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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10 months ago
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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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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TheCollector
What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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9 months ago
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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a month ago
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector
What Are the Five French Republics?
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TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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9 months ago
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
2 weeks ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
5 months ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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8 months ago
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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7 months ago
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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6 months ago
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months ago
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
History Today Feed
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
a month ago
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
7 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
11 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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a month ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
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.
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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