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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916. The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring. Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
9 months ago
TheCollector
History of Christian Missionaries: From Apostles to Modern Day Christians believe Jesus Christ came to Earth with a divine message. After the Ascension, the...
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Christians believe Jesus Christ came to Earth with a divine message. After the Ascension, the followers of Jesus took the baton from him and picked up the task of spreading that same message. These messengers were called missionaries. This post will investigate Christian...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part II: What Siege Camp? This is the second part of our [your guess is as good as mine] part series looking at the Siege of...
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This is the second part of our [your guess is as good as mine] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we saw how the logistics of this sequence absolutely do not work: Adar’s army has to cover an absurd amount of...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118.     Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
TheCollector
Discover Leah Chase: How a Black Chef Changed Food, Art, & History Chefs have over the years have become their own form of celebrities. While women were still getting...
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Chefs have over the years have become their own form of celebrities. While women were still getting a foothold in a former boy’s club, Leah Chase, a chef in New Orleans, Louisiana, broke the glass ceiling, becoming an author and television personality known today as the “Queen of...
Open Culture
10,000+ Free Online Certificates & Badges: A Resource for Lifelong Learners For those looking to boost their skills or explore new fields without breaking the bank, Class...
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For those looking to boost their skills or explore new fields without breaking the bank, Class Central has done the heavy lifting. Known as a search engine for online courses, Class Central has compiled what might be the largest collection of free online certificates and badges...
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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...
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Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954) So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel The Tudor War on Libel JamesHoare Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Lives of Exiles
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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
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature? Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Open Culture
How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937 Before his fateful entry into politics, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist. Even to the most...
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Before his fateful entry into politics, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist. Even to the most neutral imaginable observer, the known examples of the estimated 2,000 to 3,000 paintings and other works of art he produced in his early adulthood would hardly evidence astonishing...
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King John’s Lost Treasure King John’s Lost Treasure JamesHoare Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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TheCollector
The Mind-Body Problem & Consciousness: Dualism vs. Materialism Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something...
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Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something immaterial. The counterpart to this is materialism, which posits that both the mind and body are composed of the same material, physical substance. There is much more to each...
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond. uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles (but forgot to mention it)
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review ‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review JamesHoare Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Jean And Rose – A Paris Photo Love Story From 1929 In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la...
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In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la Grange Batelière. On December 11, Jean met Rose, 18, at the city’s Saint-Lazare metro station. She lived in the 15th arrondissement, and took classes in hairdressing at the École...
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets and Space Coloring Book (1960) Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms...
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Some nice space pictures (to color) for you today.  Coloring books may be one of the ultimate forms of ephemera. There were meant to be used, admired? and then thrown away. Yet many children owned them and there were at least 40 issued between 1950 and 1970 on space themes. If...
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973) As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree.    ...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth? In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen? Why Do Civil Wars Happen? JamesHoare Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology JamesHoare Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary JamesHoare Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
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For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947) Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy? The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61) The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now. Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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Magic Reality: The Eyes of Arthur Tress – in Pictures “A photographer could be considered a kind of magician. As a trained observer he can foretell the...
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“A photographer could be considered a kind of magician. As a trained observer he can foretell the potential movements of his subjects and perhaps even by some mental intimidation… actually cause them to happen.” – Arthur Tress   Arthur Tress (Nov. 24, 1940- ) was born in...
Classical Wisdom
Fun Fact: The Other Types of Love Can you think of 30 meanings of “Love”?
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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...
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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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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America.   In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
Classical Wisdom
Antigone Storms and Tyrants
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Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and... Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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Émile-Allain Séguy’s Insectes, 1925 – A Hymn To Nature In 20 Beautiful Illustrated Plates “Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no...
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“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible...
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s “Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project     Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Classical Wisdom
ALL HAIL CAESAR??? Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
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Manuel Orazi’s Occultist Magic Calendar Mil DCCCXCVI, 1895 This French occultist calendar illustrated in the Art Nouveau style by Italian artist and designer...
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This French occultist calendar illustrated in the Art Nouveau style by Italian artist and designer Manuel Orazi (1860 – 1934) was printed in an symbolic edition of 777 copies to commemorate magic for the coming year of 1896. Each double page uses the Christian calendar (name...
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges What's it going to be, then?
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Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should...
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As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
The Battle of Navarino: The Last Battle of the Age of Sail The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships...
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The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships took to the seas, two great masses of wooden sailing ships clashed in one last fleet action with the fate of an empire on the line. For a final time fleets of sailing ships impacted...
Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7 Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ? Another of my essays in French.
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Blindspots and Biographies
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union JamesHoare Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human? Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Open Culture
Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965) Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few,...
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Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology. That’s not to say there aren’t still economic barriers aplenty for the struggling artist, but true independence is not an...
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me? First, do lots of harm.
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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No End Of A Lesson. If we can only learn it.
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TheCollector
10 Beautiful Libraries in the U.S. You Should Visit Libraries have long stood as pillars of knowledge and culture, evolving from ancient archives to...
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Libraries have long stood as pillars of knowledge and culture, evolving from ancient archives to modern public institutions. The earliest known libraries date back to the 7th century B.C., such as the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, which housed a vast collection of cuneiform...
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law Reforming England’s Divorce Law JamesHoare Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024 What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
Res Obscura
Why drug history? Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns... The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Wrong Side of...
Crop rotation in the 14th century The Year of the Plague, part 4
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break? The international system, that is.
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History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review ‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners Korea’s War of Prisoners JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That... Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
10 Oldest Skyscrapers Around the World Skyscrapers weren’t always the shimmering glass-and-steel giants we know today. In the late 19th...
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Skyscrapers weren’t always the shimmering glass-and-steel giants we know today. In the late 19th century, the idea of building upward wasn’t just a necessity. It was a statement. Cities were swelling, land was expensive, and new engineering feats made it possible to defy...
TheCollector
Interview With Adriano Marinazzo: Michelangelo Masterpieces in the US TheCollector recently had the pleasure of speaking with curator Adriano Marinazzo about...
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TheCollector recently had the pleasure of speaking with curator Adriano Marinazzo about Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, an exciting new exhibition held at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. On view from March 6 to May 28, 2025, the...
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland? Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future. With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986 From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the  club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth j.hoare Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
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From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time “I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
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“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase     One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2 Books of the Year 2024: Part 2 JamesHoare Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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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...
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear? This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
History Today Feed
‘Augustus the Strong’ by Tim Blanning review ‘Augustus the Strong’ by Tim Blanning review JamesHoare Mon, 02/03/2025 - 10:16
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy Quesnay and China
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: tote. Added Week 8 and Week 9 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Tote, released the project on itch.io. Grimgrains, added a new...
Open Culture
When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place Charlie Chaplin started appearing in his first films in 1914—40 films, to be precise—and, by 1915,...
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Charlie Chaplin started appearing in his first films in 1914—40 films, to be precise—and, by 1915, the United States had a major case of “Chaplinitis.” Chaplin mustaches were suddenly popping up everywhere–as were Chaplin imitators and Chaplin look-alike contests. A young Bob...
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Brazil in World War II: The Forgotten Ally In the 1930s, Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas pushed to expand and industrialize his country’s...
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In the 1930s, Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas pushed to expand and industrialize his country’s economy—until the outbreak of World War II upended his plans. In response to repeated Axis attacks on Brazilian shipping, Brazil joined the Allies in 1942 and made significant, though...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal. Left, added a...
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross. One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development? On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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A Short Service Announcement. From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique. Another of my essays in French.
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released! In their own...
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Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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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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Arguing with the Dead Arguing with the Dead JamesHoare Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s “The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands     The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’...
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We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’ Bookshop, where as a teenager writer Alan Bennett worked part-time job. We pop into the County Arcade, walking amid the mahogany shop fronts, pink marble columns, and cast iron...
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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...
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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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Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
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Malice In Wonderland – the Trippy Cartoon Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Story, 1982 “These days, it’s, ‘Dude, what the fuck is that shit?’ Whereas back then, it was, ‘You are...
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“These days, it’s, ‘Dude, what the fuck is that shit?’ Whereas back then, it was, ‘You are exploiting women, you filthy sexist pig!'” – Vince Collins on his shot animation Malice In Wonderland     When Vince Collins made Malice in Wonderland in 1982, his hallucinatory,...
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986 A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a  Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review ‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review j.hoare Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977) Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to a...
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Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to a variety of other media: comic books, video games, board games, television series, and of course films, David Lynch’s 1984 version and Denis Villeneuve’s two-parter earlier this...
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead   From faces...
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941) Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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5 Special Forces Groups of World War II World War II spawned innovations in all aspects of warfare. From jets to rudimentary guided rockets...
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World War II spawned innovations in all aspects of warfare. From jets to rudimentary guided rockets and missiles, this conflict forever changed the face of war. The rise of special forces units within the militaries of the participants was also a significant development within...
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969 With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd  – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Split-Brain: Two Selves in One? We tend to perceive ourselves as something unified and immutable—whether we call it our soul,...
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We tend to perceive ourselves as something unified and immutable—whether we call it our soul, essence, or self. Yet, whenever we try to explain it, the questions start. Is it just perception itself? Could it be composed of several elements or even just be an illusion? There has...
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Why Is There So Much Blood in Mesoamerican Mythology? In the Aztec mythos, Huitzilopotchli sought revenge on his sister Coyolxauhqui for attacking their...
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In the Aztec mythos, Huitzilopotchli sought revenge on his sister Coyolxauhqui for attacking their mother, throwing her head into the sky to become the moon watching over. In the Maya mythos, Buluc-Chabta wore a necklace made of human eyes. Brutality and war were often the way of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Do you ever think about the people who have changed our world and how we think? Rudolf Steiner was one such person. He wasn’t just a philosopher or writer, he was an innovative educator, esotericist, artist, and original thinker whose ideas still astound us today. Steiner’s...
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Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981) In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
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In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
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Summary of changes for May Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis JamesHoare Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Still-Life: 8 Facts About the Most Underrated Genre Still-life painting is one of the oldest genres in history, yet it is often dismissed as too simple...
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Still-life painting is one of the oldest genres in history, yet it is often dismissed as too simple and not serious enough to be considered “high” art. Still, this genre has a long history spanning from antiquity. Still-life painting has evolved with human society, adapting to...
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Leahy Law: Context, Overview, & History During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting...
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During the Cold War, the United States became a major exporter of weapons to countries fighting communism around the world. The issue of US arms sales to foreign militaries accused of human rights violations has been the subject of intense debate in the American political arena...
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Distant Worlds (1932) An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller description: Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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On the Spot: Levi Roach On the Spot: Levi Roach JamesHoare Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Then They Came for the Palestinians : How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer...
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On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer and graduate student at Columbia University who had permanent residency in the United States. Donald Trump’s State Department arbitrarily revoked his residency. They are holding...
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Weekend Roundup Last Chance!
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution Britons Caught in the French Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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How Can We Separate History from Myth? And does it need to be true to be important?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977 Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Where parents make a difference Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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A Day in the Life of a Medieval Woman in England “Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives...
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“Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not reflect the reality of the time but is an interpretation of a later age that sought to create a divide between the enlightened Classical world and their...
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How Did the Arrival of Europeans Change North America? The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing...
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The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing number of settlers arriving in bigger groups after 1600. As more Europeans arrived in the region, demand for land escalated. Eventually, the invaders displaced Native Americans...
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Educated rage American polarisation: part 2
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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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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919) William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective? Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture In the eighties, people lamented the attention-span-shortening “MTV-ization” of visual culture. By...
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In the eighties, people lamented the attention-span-shortening “MTV-ization” of visual culture. By the mid-nineties, networks were trying to figure out how to get viewers to sit through music videos at all. A solution arrived in the form of Pop-Up Video, a program pitched by...
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Why European Militaries Collectively Downsized After the Cold War Throughout the Cold War, European militaries were very well-armed and capable of fighting intense...
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Throughout the Cold War, European militaries were very well-armed and capable of fighting intense conflicts over an extended period. Centuries of warfare on the European continent had conditioned people throughout Europe that war was a fact of life. Yet by the 1990s and early...
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes “We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life   The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Does Marcus Matter? Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” famously declared British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940. At...
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Summary of changes for January 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Fellow believers or fellow citizens? Liberalism dies in darkness
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The Universe of...
Think speak, now speak! Katara is now in her sixth semester in college and can speak Mandarin. I am so proud! For class she...
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Katara is now in her sixth semester in college and can speak Mandarin. I am so proud! For class she recently wrote a talk (in Mandarin) about Hua Guofeng, the often overlooked second chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. She videoed herself giving the talk, and posted it to...
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam JamesHoare Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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Dear Me: Letters by Famous Faces to Their Teenage Selves Alun CummingAmongst letters to their 16-year-old selves, writer Stephen King advises against taking...
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Alun CummingAmongst letters to their 16-year-old selves, writer Stephen King advises against taking recreational drugs. Musician Alice Cooper has words of romance –  “Trashy girls are exciting for about five minutes… Keep your eye out for a good-lookin’ church girl. Then you’ll...
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island JamesHoare Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism Heraclitus against Parmenides
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos? Do Words Matter?
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray... The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s  series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes. Many of the...
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How to Revive Wassailing How to Revive Wassailing j.hoare Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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Wrong Side of...
Britain's sinking reputation The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War j.hoare Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia JamesHoare Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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Who was Thorkell the Tall? Who was Thorkell the Tall? JamesHoare Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Overcoming Bias
My Status Circles Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our...
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Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles.
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899. Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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The Roman Socrates The Feminist Stoic?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record One I bought fifty years ago.
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6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read What is missing?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts. They know what they think.
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967 Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75 In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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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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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist? Does what goes around come around?
10 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy And Self-Dealing Governance Compared to divided government, a more central government has stronger incentives to help the polity...
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Compared to divided government, a more central government has stronger incentives to help the polity as a whole.
Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
8 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024 Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925) The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions.     Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi... The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969 In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976) Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic. Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts Medieval Icelandic Feasts j.hoare Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Open Culture
The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin... For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the...
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For a film, explained a young Quentin Tarantino in one interview, “the real test of time isn’t the Friday that it opens. It’s how the film is thought of thirty years from now.” It just so happens that Pulp Fiction, which made Tarantino the most celebrated director in America...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
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France’s Long March Against Racism France’s Long March Against Racism j.hoare Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Watch The Alphabet, David Lynch’s horrific 1968 short, “There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more...
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“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more they’re going to help each other” – David Lynch     David Lynch’s 1968 short The Alphabet was inspired by his first wife Peggy’s niece reciting her ABCs during a nightmare then waking...
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What’s in a name? Is Re-labeling a distraction or disruption?
a month ago
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s.     Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review ‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review JamesHoare Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus Notes on Christian Syria
2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece JamesHoare Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Wisdom for the New Year
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TheCollector
Roman-Era Hermes Statue Found in Ancient City of Aspendos Turkish archaeologists unearthed an ancient statue of Hermes, the winged messenger of the gods, in...
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Turkish archaeologists unearthed an ancient statue of Hermes, the winged messenger of the gods, in the Greco-Roman city of Aspendos. It was found alongside objects associated with other major deities in Greek mythology.   Turkish Archaeologists Uncover Fragmented Hermes Statue  ...
Open Culture
How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1 Image via Wikimedia Commons How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies...
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Image via Wikimedia Commons How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies that 77 million Americans voted into the White House a criminal reality TV star from NBC, one groomed by a reality TV producer from CBS, who then appointed his Cabinet from Fox and X...
TheCollector
What Is Black History Month? Originating in the United States, BHM has become an annual celebration of the history and...
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Originating in the United States, BHM has become an annual celebration of the history and achievements of black people in many countries across the world, such as the UK and Canada. The months predominantly used for celebration are February and October, with the celebrations...
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED     We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Before The Past Was New. Why should we bother trying to understand?
a week ago
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian? What Use is Prehistory to the Historian? JamesHoare Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student ...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Julius Caesar
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024 Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
Newly Discovered Frescoes Reveal Ancient Ritual in Pompeii A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall...
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A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall with a procession of Dionysian revelers. Brightly colored and nearly life-sized, the newly identified fresco figures dance, hunt, and imbibe in the name of the god of wine.  ...
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea The Road from East Germany to North Korea JamesHoare Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Life of Plato
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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904 “…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death    ...
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“…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death     Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) etched his Seven Deadly Sins in 1904. To hammer home the message of human foolishness, malice and the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow. For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963? An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness Event News
a year ago
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic JamesHoare Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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Open Culture
Carl Jung’s Hand-Drawn, Rarely-Seen Manuscript The Red Book Despite his one-time friend and mentor Sigmund Freud’s enormous impact on Western...
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Despite his one-time friend and mentor Sigmund Freud’s enormous impact on Western self-understanding, I would argue it is Carl Jung who is still most with us in our communal practices: from his focus on introversion and extroversion to his view of syncretic, intuitive forms of...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy JamesHoare Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition. Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
over a year ago
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie (A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ... Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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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...
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“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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plato and Atlantis
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Why The BBC Wanted To Keep George Orwell Off The Radio “I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell...
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“I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell personally on the air.” – the BBC controller outlines his reasons for keeping George Orwell off the air     In his his lifetime, George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was thought...
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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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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776  – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776  – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the...
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
Classical Wisdom
Greek Mythology's Greatest Love Story Cupid and Psyche
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The Art of Erotic Ex Libris (NSFW) Ex Libris is a Latin phrase that translates as “from the books”. Also known as bookplates, Ex Libris...
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Ex Libris is a Latin phrase that translates as “from the books”. Also known as bookplates, Ex Libris were first used in Germany in the 15th Century. These designs are pasted into a book’s inside cover or endpaper as a sign of ownership. The first books were highly valuable and...
Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children? Bringing History to the Future
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