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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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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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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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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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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Philosopher Kings
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
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But is there anything there?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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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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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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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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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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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
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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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...
3 months ago
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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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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