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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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over a year ago
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Moving With the Times?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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For the Love of the Classics
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Should we pay attention to them?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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What makes a good friend?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
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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...
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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...
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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African History...
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Patterns in Humanity
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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The Story of Thebes
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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The Tudor War on Libel
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What Was the First Written Language?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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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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Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
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And how does it reflect on us?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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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...
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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 St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Events Listing
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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What Is Populism?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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