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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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One, Two (1965)
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Classical Wisdom
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
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...
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Classical Wisdom
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Flashbak
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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Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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A Brief History of Chile
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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...
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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What Is Solipsism?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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History Today Feed
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Flashbak
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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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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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
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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a year ago
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 months ago
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
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