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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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What Is an Antipope?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Hundred Rabbits
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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
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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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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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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What is the Soul?
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Is Solipsism?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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6 months ago
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...
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Does Karma Exist?
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Does what goes around come around?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Rituals and Religion
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Belief in the Ancient World
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Eternal Glory
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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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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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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