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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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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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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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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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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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What Is Capoeira?
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Three Cabins Left
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Another Of My Essays in French
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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The End of the World?
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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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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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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A history of the monastic high life
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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What Is Theodicy?
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Flashbak
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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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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a year ago
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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3 months ago
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
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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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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6 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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8 months ago
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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6 months ago
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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a year ago
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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a year ago
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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11 months ago
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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a year ago
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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a year ago
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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a year ago
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 months ago
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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8 months ago
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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9 months ago
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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4 months ago
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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7 months ago
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