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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Global Inequality...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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What Is the Will to Power?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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A History of the United States Senate
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How to Revive Wassailing
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Out Of Control.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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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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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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It's All About Them.
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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In their own...
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No Left Turn
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
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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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
TheCollector
How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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What Was Négritude?
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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...
5 months ago
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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How the CCP is Closing China
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“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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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Reality Would Like A Word.
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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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...
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
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a year ago
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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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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African History...
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Why Should We Care About Children?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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When Was D-Day?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Monsters of Mythology
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Flashbak
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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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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TheCollector
Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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