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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Beyond Mars (1960)
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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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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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Early Bird is Ending
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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Another Of My Essays in French
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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But why aren't people in other countries listening?
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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History Today Feed
The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Flashbak
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...
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TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
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“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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...
10 months ago
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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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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TheCollector
The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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9 months ago
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
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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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
2 months ago
Do people actually disagree that much?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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6 months ago
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