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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
7 months ago
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
a month ago
The world that created Caravaggio
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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6 months ago
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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2 months ago
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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a year ago
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 months ago
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The Electoral College Explained
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2 months ago
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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7 months ago
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
a month ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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2 months ago
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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10 months ago
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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a year ago
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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a year ago
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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3 weeks ago
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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6 months ago
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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2 months ago
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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3 months ago
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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4 weeks ago
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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4 months ago
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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a year ago
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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7 months ago
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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6 months ago
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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8 months ago
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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a year ago
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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2 months ago
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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2 months ago
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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a month ago
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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8 months ago
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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a month ago
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
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Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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3 months ago
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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a year ago
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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a year ago
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...
Flashbak
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...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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a year ago
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
8 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
2 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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a year ago
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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3 months ago
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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a year ago
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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12 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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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
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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a year ago
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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a year ago
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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a year ago
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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a month ago
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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2 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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3 months ago
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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a month ago
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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10 months ago
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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2 months ago
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
6 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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12 months ago
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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2 months ago
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