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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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And How Do We Learn?
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The Lives of Exiles
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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To all the newspapers I loved
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This Changes Everything!
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11 months ago
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
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6 days ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Service to what nation?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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Freedom by North-West
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Battle of the Historians
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
8 months ago
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
3 weeks ago
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
a year ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Hundred Rabbits
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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10 months ago
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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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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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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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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Global Inequality...
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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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...
4 months ago
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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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
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Last Chance!
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