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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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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...
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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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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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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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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Artemisia of Caria
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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TheCollector
5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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TheCollector
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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over a year ago
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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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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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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***Only 15 Seats Left
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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a year ago
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
11 months ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 months ago
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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8 months ago
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
5 days ago
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
The Antikythera Mechanism
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
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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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
10 months ago
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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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...
6 months ago
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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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
4 months ago
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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2 months ago
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doldrumming
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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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
2 weeks ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
10 months ago
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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3 months ago
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
6 days ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
10 months ago
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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