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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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The Best of the Best
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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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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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Papa To The Rescue.
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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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...
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
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over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
3 months ago
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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a year ago
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TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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What Is Theodicy?
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
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Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
5 days ago
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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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...
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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a year ago
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
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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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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Does Free Will Exist?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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When Was D-Day?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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7 months ago
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
a week ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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