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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
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
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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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...
10 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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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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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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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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On cartography as historical argument
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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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
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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