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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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What Is Theodicy?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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History Today Feed
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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government in central Africa.
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The Great Experience (1963)
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
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11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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What Is an Antipope?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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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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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
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2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Flashbak
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...
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‘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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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...
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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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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
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a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Global Inequality...
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a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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The third framing
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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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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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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TheCollector
Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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African History...
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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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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A History of the United States Senate
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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