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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
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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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Tjaart’s Substack
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
Trying to Understand...
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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