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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Universities as factories
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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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...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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2x2 geopolitics
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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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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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Trying to Understand...
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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What is Virtue?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Aristotle on Luck
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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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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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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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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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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