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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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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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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Undersea Base (1974)
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Who Was Vortigern?
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Moving With the Times?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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What Is Capoeira?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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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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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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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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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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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...
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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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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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