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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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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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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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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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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Global Inequality...
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What Is Voguing?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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When Africa discovered Europe
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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What’s the History of Gin?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Centuries of Childhood
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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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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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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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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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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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...
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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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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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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African History...
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Into the Waste Land
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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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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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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For the Love of the Classics
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History as Tragedy?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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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...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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