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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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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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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Dr Alun Withey
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...
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
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a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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