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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Fate and Free Will
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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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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What Is Transcendentalism?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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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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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
a year ago
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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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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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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....
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
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.
History Today Feed
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
11 months ago
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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.
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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2 months ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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8 months ago
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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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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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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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...
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
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I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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When Was D-Day?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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