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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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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...
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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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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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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...
11 months 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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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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The Story of Thebes
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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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...
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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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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Beyond Stoicism
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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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...
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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...
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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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...
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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...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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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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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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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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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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