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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
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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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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What Is the Didache?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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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
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
a week ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
“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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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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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...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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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...
5 months ago
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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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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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...
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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...
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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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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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
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a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
JamesHoare
Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
a month ago
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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...
10 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...
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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