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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Searching In Science (1965)
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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The Mother of Rome
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Stop Making Sense.
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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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
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
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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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
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Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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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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