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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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A very deep history of Halloween
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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A Collection of...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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No Left Turn
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
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I...
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Hundred Rabbits
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In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Flashbak
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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African History...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Patterns in Humanity
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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CrimethInc.
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Flashbak
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...
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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...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Why Read Modern Books?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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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...
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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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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Death of the King of Siam
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Death of the King of Siam
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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How Iran Won the West
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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The Machine Stops.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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