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https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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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...
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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...
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Does Free Will Exist?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
12 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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