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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
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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...
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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government in central Africa.
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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TheCollector
Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
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.
TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
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TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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History Today Feed
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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...
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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TheCollector
4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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TheCollector
Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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TheCollector
Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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TheCollector
How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
a month ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
7 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
a week ago
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...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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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...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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A History of Phantom Pain
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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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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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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History Today Review of the Year
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j.hoare
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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What Is Solipsism?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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How can we train Resilience?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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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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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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