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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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What Is an Antipope?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
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Women of Ancient Rome
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9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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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
TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Global Inequality...
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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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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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Life of Aristotle
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
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a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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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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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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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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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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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...
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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...
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Aristotle on Friendship
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Columbine 25 Years On
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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History and Myth
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Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Summary of changes for July
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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What Was the Chaco War?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
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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, …...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
a month ago
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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A Brief History of Chile
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Into the Waste Land
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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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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Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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