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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For? undefined
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Aristotle's Rhetoric The Power of Persuasion
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy undefined
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know undefined
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family undefined
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art undefined
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review ‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review JamesHoare Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World ...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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How to Revive Wassailing How to Revive Wassailing j.hoare Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words? undefined
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History undefined
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The Indian Citizenship Act The Indian Citizenship Act JamesHoare Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours undefined
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science? undefined
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling? undefined
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review ‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review JamesHoare Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious... A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages? undefined
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US undefined
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948) With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia undefined
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland? undefined
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Why Do Religions Decline? Why Do Religions Decline? JamesHoare Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites undefined
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer undefined
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire undefined
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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...
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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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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation? undefined
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet undefined
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy undefined
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz? undefined
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate undefined
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition undefined
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ undefined
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We Are All Civilisational States It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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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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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ... But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival undefined
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism undefined
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses undefined
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena undefined
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient? undefined
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama? undefined
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon undefined
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Inventing Cyrillic Inventing Cyrillic JamesHoare Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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The Death of Clive of India The Death of Clive of India JamesHoare Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis undefined
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My Substack in Other Languages. Starting with Spanish.
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones undefined
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over? undefined
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know undefined
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed undefined
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844 A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844.     “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly? undefined
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas undefined
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History “At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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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...
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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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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago undefined
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian undefined
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919) William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day? undefined
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know undefined
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia undefined
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls? undefined
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome undefined
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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The Essential Greeks ***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s “Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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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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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan undefined
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Why Aren’t We Happy? Count no man happy until the end is known
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin? undefined
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II? undefined
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece undefined
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads undefined
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry? undefined
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry? undefined
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History Today Review of the Year History Today Review of the Year j.hoare Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat.  “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible? undefined
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Who Was Frantz Fanon? undefined
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects undefined
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy undefined
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy undefined
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire undefined
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities undefined
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Aristotle's Poetics The Science of Art
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About undefined
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit? undefined
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig undefined
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams? undefined
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century) undefined
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army undefined
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Stock Car Racing in 1972 In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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Candles and Kalshnikovs. Please help us not to understand.
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality undefined
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview undefined
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover? undefined
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen? undefined
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo? undefined
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages? undefined
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life undefined
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978) A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share.  This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share.  This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood? undefined
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice undefined
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained undefined
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust? Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius? undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
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....
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda undefined
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore? undefined
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW) “I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes undefined
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo undefined
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious? undefined
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan undefined
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021 Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer undefined
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands undefined
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan? undefined
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories) undefined
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber undefined
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"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art? undefined
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs? undefined
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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
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War? The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960) So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist undefined
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico undefined
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World? undefined
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus undefined
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women JamesHoare Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference? undefined
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When Lightning Strikes... Literally A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Who Was Tertullian? undefined
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No Way Out Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans JamesHoare Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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Weekend Roundup Free Will Vs Determinism
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients undefined
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast undefined
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Weekend Roundup Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019 It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics undefined
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature? undefined
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War undefined
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Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution undefined
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963) A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets. Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &... Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction undefined
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View Keeping Blinded Veterans in View JamesHoare Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up? undefined
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900. State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Let's Be Enemies Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More undefined
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Weekend Roundup Celebrate Cicero!
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection? undefined
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What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like? Sexy? Scary? Both?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way How ASEAN Lost its Way JamesHoare Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy? undefined
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Who Was Vortigern? undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966) The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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What Makes the City of London Unique? undefined
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople? undefined
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis JamesHoare Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs undefined
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