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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Why drug history?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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TheCollector
Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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The KGB After Stalin
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Dr Alun Withey
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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African History...
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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African History...
The General History of Africa
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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TheCollector
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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A Collection of...
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TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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The End of Power Projection?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Fate and Free Will
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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How Iran Won the West
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Rocket Divers (1962)
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Death of the King of Siam
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Hundred Rabbits
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Io Saturnalia!
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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When technology follows art
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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