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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Overcoming Bias
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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TheCollector
Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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A Collection of...
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
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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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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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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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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In Defence of Boring Books
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Classical Wisdom
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
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100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
Wrong Side of...
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Summary of changes for February 2023
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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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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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Overcoming Bias
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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The Secret Life of Latin
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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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...
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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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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Games Nations Play.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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