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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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A Clash Of Symbols
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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Games Nations Play.
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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The True Knights Templar
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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What Is an Antipope?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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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...
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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...
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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How Iran Won the West
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
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Another of my essays in French.
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Newer World Order.
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But can they get their heads round it?
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
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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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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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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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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When Was D-Day?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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What Is Theodicy?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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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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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Celebrate Cicero!
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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...
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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?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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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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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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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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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Who Was Averroes?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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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...
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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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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Overcoming Bias
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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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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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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