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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
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Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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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.
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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One, Two (1965)
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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US President or American Caesar?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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What Is Theodicy?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The God of Wine!
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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The Fall of a Republic
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
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over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
African History...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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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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TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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But who is prepared to admit it?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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The Life of Aristotle
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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TheCollector
7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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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...
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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