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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
a week ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Why Should We Care About Children?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Summary of changes for June 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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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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And how does it reflect on us?
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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6 months ago
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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8 months ago
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Ancient Anxiety
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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over a year ago
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Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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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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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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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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Three Cabins Left
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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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...
11 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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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 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 November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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A Few Spots Left
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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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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What Is Nestorianism?
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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The War on the Countryside
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Are Conlangs?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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No Women Allowed?
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The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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