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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Maths, Art, and the Moon
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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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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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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TheCollector
Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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over a year ago
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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In Praise of the Preterite
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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The First Biographers
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
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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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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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***Only 15 Seats Left
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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The End of the World?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Does Free Will Exist?
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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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...
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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What Is Theodicy?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Overcoming Bias
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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