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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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over a year ago
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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over a year ago
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And some bits and pieces.
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We left our mooring at...
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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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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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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.
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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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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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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