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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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What Is an Antipope?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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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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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Typhoons and mold
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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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...
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Overcoming Bias
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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Dreams of Space -...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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A History of the United States Senate
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
10 months ago
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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4 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
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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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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
10 months ago
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
7 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
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
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
a week ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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