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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Moon Base (1959)
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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".
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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a year ago
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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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Patterns in Humanity
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Wrong Side of...
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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11 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Res Obscura
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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What Was Organization Todt?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
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The world that created Caravaggio
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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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...
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
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9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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j.hoare
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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6 months ago
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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Classical Wisdom
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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People, States and Borders.
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
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TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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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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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Classical Wisdom
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Prometheus and AI?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Dreams of Space -...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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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...
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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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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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...
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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...
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
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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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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
African History...
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...
3 weeks ago
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.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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