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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Dr Alun Withey
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Wrong Side of...
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TheCollector
Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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a year ago
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Religion in the Olympics
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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A Strange Defeat.
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Flashbak
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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And the Boundless Universe
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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African History...
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
Open Culture
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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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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...
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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...
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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What Is Capoeira?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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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.
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
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...
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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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,...
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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...
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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