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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Origins of Stoicism
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
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Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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What Was the Chaco War?
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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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...
TheCollector
Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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The Tudor War on Libel
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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What Is Thatcherism?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
4 months ago
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Classical Wisdom
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
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TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
a year ago
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Wrong Side of...
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
Global Inequality...
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
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TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Guitar?
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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...
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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Trying to Understand...
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That's a good question.
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
3 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
2 months ago
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
3 months ago
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
7 months ago
And Her Controversial Religion
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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What Is Voguing?
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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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...
3 months ago
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...
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
5 months ago
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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3 months ago
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
8 months ago
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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a year ago
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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a year ago
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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8 months ago
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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9 months ago
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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