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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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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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Early Bird is Ending
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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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...
African History...
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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New Year, Old Books
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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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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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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weird medieval guys
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Tolkien and Plato
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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