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Understanding political violence.
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The international system, that is.
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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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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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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The Past Is Another Country.
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Betrayed By Culture
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Origins of Stoicism
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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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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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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What Is Thatcherism?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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How Iran Won the West
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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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Battle of the Historians
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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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...
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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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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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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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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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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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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Trying to Understand...
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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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...
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Patterns in Humanity
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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TheCollector
What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Who Was Averroes?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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...
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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