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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Hundred Rabbits
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Free French Bombers Over France
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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How the South Became Republican
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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What Are Conlangs?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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What Is an Antipope?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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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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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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