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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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African History...
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
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11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Early Christian Poetry
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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What Is Voguing?
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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7 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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over a year ago
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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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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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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