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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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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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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
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a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
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over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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TheCollector
Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
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TheCollector
The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
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Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
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Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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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.
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
What Is Capoeira?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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The Early Years of Jesus
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
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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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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The Silence of the Elephants
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Classical Wisdom
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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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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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
TheCollector
Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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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...
8 months ago
“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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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
2 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
11 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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