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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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When Was D-Day?
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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And how does it reflect on us?
TheCollector
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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A Collection of...
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2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dreams of Space -...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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TheCollector
Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Overcoming Bias
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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