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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Early Bird is Ending
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Dionysus
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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...
a year ago
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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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
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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...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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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 Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Patterns in Humanity
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Empress Theodora
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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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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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Secret of the Stoics
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Summary of changes for July 2023
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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.
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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