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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
12 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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African History...
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
TheCollector
What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
2 days ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
TheCollector
What Was Jim Crow?
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Open Culture
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...
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
2 weeks ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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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 Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Who Was Tertullian?
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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The Mother of Rome
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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And How Do We Learn?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Plato On Knowledge
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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A Different View of Thucydides
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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To all the newspapers I loved
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The decline and fall of the print media.
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
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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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
3 weeks ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
4 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
TheCollector
Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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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
11 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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2 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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7 months ago
CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
a month ago
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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How can we train Resilience?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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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...
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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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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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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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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
7 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Eternal Glory
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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