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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Should Death Concern Us?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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What Is Theodicy?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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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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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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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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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
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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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
a year ago
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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What Is Voguing?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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