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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Hundred Rabbits
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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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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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Hundred Rabbits
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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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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African History...
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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TheCollector
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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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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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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an island in the maelstrom
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Tolkien and the Classics
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Most of them are not from 2023
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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