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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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How Iran Won the West
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Who Was Averroes?
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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A Collection of...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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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
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
2 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The Life of Plato
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
Classical Wisdom
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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A Collection of...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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What Is the Will to Power?
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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