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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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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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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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2 weeks ago
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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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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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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Greek or Roman?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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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,...
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Papa To The Rescue.
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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A re-run--
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Patterns in Humanity
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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What Is Theodicy?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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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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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
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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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Hidden History
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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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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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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4 weeks ago
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
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a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
8 months ago
“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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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Their Enemies The Russians
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a year ago
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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tools ecosystem
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In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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But is there anything there?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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