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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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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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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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War in Dreamland
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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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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What makes a good friend?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Summary of changes for February
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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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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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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A History of Phantom Pain
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Freedom by North-West
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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The Tudor War on Libel
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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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
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
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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...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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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....
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 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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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
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...
a month 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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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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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
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
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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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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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.
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Weekend Roundup
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a year ago
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
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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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
5 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
6 days ago
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
6 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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What Is Thatcherism?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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