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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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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...
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“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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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
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It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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