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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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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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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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Beyond Stoicism
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Flashbak
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...
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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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...
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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They know what they think.
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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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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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Sex Before Sex Education
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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The Secrets of Crete
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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A Brief History of Chile
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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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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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Why drug history?
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Hundred Rabbits
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...
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 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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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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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....
10 months ago
“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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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
10 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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