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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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The Nemi Ships
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Essential Classics
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Summary of changes for August
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Hades
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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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,...
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Summary of changes for October
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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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...
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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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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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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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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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What Is Solipsism?
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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What Was Négritude?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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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...
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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...
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Lost and Found
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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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...
11 months ago
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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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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The Epics Collection
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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