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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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A History of the United States Senate
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Flashbak
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
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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What Is Voguing?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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What Are Conlangs?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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History Today Feed
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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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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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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