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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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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...
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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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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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The Furies
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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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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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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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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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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