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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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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...
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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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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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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The Story of Thebes
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Philosophy and Children
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
TheCollector
The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Papa To The Rescue.
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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How Iran Won the West
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Who Made the Top Ten?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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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.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Final Call
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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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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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
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TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Global Inequality...
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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