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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Classical Wisdom
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
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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7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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a year ago
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Open Culture
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over a year ago
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TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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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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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
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7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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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, …...
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over a year ago
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Spartan Training
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2 months ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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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...
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