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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
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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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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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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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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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The end and the beginning of history
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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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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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
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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The international system, that is.
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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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...
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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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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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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African History...
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*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Patterns in Humanity
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Open Culture
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
9 months ago
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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Flashbak
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Global Inequality...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Bringing It All Back Home
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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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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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Arguing with the Dead
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Arguing with the Dead
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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The Art of the Interesting
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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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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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Res Obscura
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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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.
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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It's All About Them.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Devant la guerre
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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