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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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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 Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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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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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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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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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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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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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Stoicism and Stress
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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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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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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How the South Became Republican
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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And the Boundless Universe
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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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...
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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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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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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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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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