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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists? undefined
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro undefined
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s “Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw     This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Tension-Filled Black Holes Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used undefined
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II? undefined
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’ This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
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This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation undefined
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The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh.   When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?” undefined
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin   Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like? undefined
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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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Will The West Eat Itself? Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off undefined
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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...
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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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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power undefined
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists undefined
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller undefined
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche? undefined
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It undefined
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Who Were the Pilgrims? undefined
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t undefined
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud? undefined
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War in Dreamland Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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What Is Anti-Natalism? undefined
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Mole Rocket (1965) Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing. Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965. When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee undefined
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1 Books of the Year 2024: Part 1 JamesHoare Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election JamesHoare Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024 Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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The end and the beginning of history Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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How Mexico Fought Franco How Mexico Fought Franco JamesHoare Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973) For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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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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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With? undefined
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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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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. Summary Of Changes Donsol, designed a donsol turnip. Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Who Was Oscar Wilde? undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962) A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint.  I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint.  I blogged about this book in 2012 here: https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique. Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review ‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review JamesHoare Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas? undefined
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country? undefined
a month ago
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum undefined
a year ago
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening undefined
6 months ago
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada undefined
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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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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch? undefined
a year ago
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth? undefined
a year ago
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature undefined
5 months ago
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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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles undefined
a year ago
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum undefined
5 months ago
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist undefined
8 months ago
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack undefined
a year ago
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally? Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love undefined
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
a month ago
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist? undefined
a month ago
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire undefined
a month ago
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of undefined
a month ago
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom. Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature? undefined
8 months ago
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review ‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review JamesHoare Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
2 weeks ago
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes undefined
6 months ago
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot? undefined
6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you.  Something about Santa and Flying...
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you.  Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention. Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965) The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do. DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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What Made the Harlem Hellfighters Legendary? undefined
21 hours ago
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished? undefined
a year ago
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution Britons Caught in the French Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia undefined
a year ago
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History “At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power? undefined
4 months ago
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones undefined
5 months ago
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible? undefined
2 weeks ago
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements? undefined
a year ago
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times undefined
a month ago
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure JamesHoare Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know undefined
3 weeks ago
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor undefined
a week ago
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany undefined
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise undefined
8 months ago
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical? undefined
4 months ago
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning undefined
4 months ago
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece undefined
4 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
9 months ago
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist? undefined
11 months ago
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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
a year ago
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations undefined
12 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight. Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII j.hoare Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K. A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
7 months ago
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From? undefined
5 months ago
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties? undefined
3 months ago
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Texas undefined
4 days ago
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy undefined
a year ago
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London undefined
a year ago
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities undefined
3 months ago
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World! Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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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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6 Assassinations That Changed History undefined
8 months ago
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism undefined
4 months ago
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW) “I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program? undefined
10 months ago
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux? undefined
8 months ago
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say undefined
3 weeks ago
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know undefined
2 months ago
Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema 1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed undefined
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Origins of Stoicism
6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction undefined
9 months ago
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History undefined
11 months ago
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem undefined
2 months ago
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive “We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
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a year ago
“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 Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard? undefined
8 months ago
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama? undefined
a month ago
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties undefined
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances. Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra? undefined
a year ago
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy undefined
3 months ago
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free undefined
10 months ago
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars undefined
5 months ago
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...