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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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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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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Summary of changes for July
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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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...
7 months ago
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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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
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It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
TheCollector
What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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TheCollector
Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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TheCollector
Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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a year ago
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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a year ago
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Halloween?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
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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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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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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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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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...
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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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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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