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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“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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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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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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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
8 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
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,...
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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