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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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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 …...
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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What Was Négritude?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Classical Wisdom
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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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...
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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,...
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Ancient Greek Art
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Love and Death
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TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Why did clothing become boring?
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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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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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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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...
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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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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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