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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Blast Off (1973)
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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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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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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5 months ago
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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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...
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation...
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
7 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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a year ago
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
11 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
3 weeks ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Patterns in Humanity
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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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...
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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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...
3 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...
TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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What Was Organization Todt?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Popol Vuh: A Maya Myth Told in Dance and Song
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Flashbak
Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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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...
7 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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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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...
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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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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Open Culture
Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack
Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the...
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Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the band’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. The video was recorded on the evening of January 24, 1988, after the store had closed. In those days the group went by the name of Ted Ed...
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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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...
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
9 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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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...
11 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....
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
a month ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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