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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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We left our mooring at...
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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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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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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A Clash Of Symbols
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TheCollector
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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j.hoare
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TheCollector
Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Open Culture
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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African History...
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state and society in south-central Africa
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TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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In their own...
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
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j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Classical Wisdom
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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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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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Into the Waste Land
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Tolkien and Plato
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Overcoming Bias
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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Ancient Olympics
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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When Was D-Day?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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