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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
Dreams of Space -...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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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...
Dr Alun Withey
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Empedocles
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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How Should We Look at History?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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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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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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