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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Overcoming Bias
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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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You And Whose Army?
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
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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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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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a year ago
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...
Hundred Rabbits
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a year ago
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Dreams of Space -...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Another of my essays in French.
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Wrong Side of...
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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11 months ago
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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The international system, that is.
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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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...
2 months ago
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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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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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...
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“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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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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African History...
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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