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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Changing Seasons
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
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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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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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...
a year ago
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...
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The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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Secret of the Stoics
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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The Pompeii Mosaics
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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A Collection of...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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A Strange Defeat.
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a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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a year ago
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
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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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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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...
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Is an Antipope?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
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...
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...
a year ago
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...
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
2 months ago
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Classical Wisdom
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
8 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
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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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Summary of changes for May
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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What Are Conlangs?
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
10 months ago
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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TheCollector
Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
3 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
11 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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