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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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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...
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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...
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Early Bird is Ending
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
Classical Wisdom
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The Mystery of the Mind
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
3 weeks ago
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Classical Wisdom
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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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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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Why Socrates Matters
New Event: November 22
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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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....
a year ago
“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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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Flashbak
A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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over a year ago
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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