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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Brushing for Britain
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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The True Knights Templar
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Dreams of Space -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
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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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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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On cartography as historical argument
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
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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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
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11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Who Was Vortigern?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Classical Wisdom
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Aristotle's Politics
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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