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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Hey everyone!
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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A very deep history of Halloween
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Why Read Modern Books?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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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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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Love and Death
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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