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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Summary of changes for March
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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the sucessor of Songhai
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Summary of changes for October 2023
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a year ago
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Who Was Julian?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
2 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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a year ago
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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8 months ago
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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A Clash Of Symbols
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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2 months ago
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
Trying to Understand...
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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a year ago
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History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
6 months ago
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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a year ago
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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10 months ago
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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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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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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History Today Feed
‘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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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
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TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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Summary of changes for March 2024
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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