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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Aristotle's Poetics
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Tension-Filled Black Holes
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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The Essential Greeks
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But what about the rest of us?
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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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 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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The Birth of Ovid
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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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 Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
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demystifying an ancient African society
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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African History...
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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What Is Thatcherism?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Summary of changes for July 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 July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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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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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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What Was the Chaco War?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
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a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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Who Was Averroes?
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
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
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What Was Jim Crow?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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