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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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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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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
Patterns in Humanity
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Weekend Roundup
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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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...
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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...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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