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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Summary of changes for October
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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over a year ago
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The Ocarina
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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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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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
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http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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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...
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Magical and Medicinal
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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What Was Négritude?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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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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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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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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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘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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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
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....
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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