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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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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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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
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We...
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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We're going to get you.
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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A Collection of...
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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When Was the First Crusade?
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The KGB After Stalin
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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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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Plato Vs Aristotle
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Democracy
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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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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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Death of the King of Siam
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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A Week Off And A New Language
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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American polarisation: part 2
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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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...
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
Overcoming Bias
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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