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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Tolkien and the Classics
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Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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War Is Complicated.
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a year ago
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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The Electoral College Explained
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
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 Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Early Years of Jesus
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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TheCollector
A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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African History...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The End of Power Projection?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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