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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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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
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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How the South Became Republican
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Does Free Will Exist?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Free French Bombers Over France
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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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...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Ancient Atomists
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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