Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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The Secret Life of Latin
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3 months ago
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Last Chance
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
2 months ago
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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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...
4 months ago
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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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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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...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
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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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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