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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
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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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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Summary Of Changes
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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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...
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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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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Philosophy and Children
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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