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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
5 months ago
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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What Is Populism?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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4 months ago
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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7 months ago
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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11 months ago
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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4 months ago
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“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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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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5 months ago
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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4 months ago
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 months ago
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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a year ago
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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8 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
a year ago
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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7 months ago
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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11 months ago
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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a year ago
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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a year ago
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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3 months ago
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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8 months ago
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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a year ago
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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4 months ago
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What Is Thatcherism?
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11 months ago
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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6 months ago
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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a month ago
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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11 months ago
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
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