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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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Who Was Tertullian?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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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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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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The Life of Terence
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What is Plagiarism?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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How the CCP is Closing China
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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Blindspots and Biographies
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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The Immortals
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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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...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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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....
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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.
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Philosophy and Children
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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