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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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How to Give a Speech
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Santa and The Space Men
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Anya, Joel and Frida at the End of the World!
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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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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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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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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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Socrates and the Soul
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
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a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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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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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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