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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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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.”...
a year ago
“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...
TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
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8 months ago
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
TheCollector
Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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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. ...
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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On 17th century "cocaine"
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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