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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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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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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
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a year ago
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Ancient Atomists
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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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...
over a year ago
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...
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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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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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Their Enemies The Russians
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But what about the rest of us?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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A history of the monastic high life
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
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a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
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But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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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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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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