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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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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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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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a year ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Classical Wisdom
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
yesterday
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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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...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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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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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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What Is Solipsism?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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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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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...
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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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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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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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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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