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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning undefined
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible? undefined
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works? undefined
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Weekend Roundup Classics Gifts!
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism? undefined
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime undefined
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact undefined
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? undefined
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous? undefined
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas? undefined
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis     In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico? undefined
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The Mother Goddess of Rome And Her Controversial Religion
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius undefined
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim undefined
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Weekend Roundup Battle of the Historians
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction undefined
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism? undefined
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov undefined
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats? undefined
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid undefined
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts) undefined
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today undefined
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution undefined
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine undefined
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know undefined
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)? undefined
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History undefined
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown? undefined
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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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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims undefined
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople? undefined
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review ‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review j.hoare Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities The Original Bonfire of the Vanities JamesHoare Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema undefined
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning “Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera     Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record undefined
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2 undefined
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain? undefined
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas undefined
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary.   The idea...
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care. Wunderland Rabbits,...
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits? undefined
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare? undefined
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Columbine 25 Years On Columbine 25 Years On JamesHoare Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Sex Before Sex Education Sex Before Sex Education JamesHoare Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa? undefined
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter undefined
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review ‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire undefined
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What Was the Warsaw Pact? undefined
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art) undefined
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Weekend Roundup Animals of the Ancient World
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars JamesHoare Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism Heraclitus against Parmenides
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know undefined
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Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World! Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969.   Shelton...
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings undefined
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Io Saturnalia! Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady undefined
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023 Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916. The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne JamesHoare Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks undefined
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass undefined
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance undefined
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6 Micronations You Should Know undefined
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History? Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins undefined
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world. A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview undefined
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat.  “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World undefined
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts undefined
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Why Do Famous Artists Recreate Old Works of Art? undefined
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb undefined
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Summary of changes for February 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia undefined
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know undefined
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas undefined
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism undefined
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda undefined
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms? undefined
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer undefined
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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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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw     This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’ Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’ JamesHoare Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Let's Be Enemies Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck undefined
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Why Aren’t We Happy? Count no man happy until the end is known
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age undefined
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson undefined
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Weekend Roundup Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries undefined
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity undefined
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue undefined
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US undefined
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Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century undefined
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life? undefined
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America undefined
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case undefined
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring undefined
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Summary of changes for December 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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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What Was the Berlin Conference? undefined
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman undefined
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936 Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard? undefined
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire undefined
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome? undefined
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List undefined
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic undefined
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory undefined
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”? undefined
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections undefined
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution? undefined
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA undefined
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work? undefined
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes undefined
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria? undefined
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Rome's Worst General? And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations undefined
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine JamesHoare Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects JamesHoare Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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And Now for Something Completely Different. Am I me? Are You you? ?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking undefined
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings? undefined
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of undefined
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What Did the Beat Generation Want? undefined
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections undefined
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago undefined
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Who Were the Landsknechts? undefined
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know undefined
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die? undefined
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The Prophecies of Merlin The Prophecies of Merlin JamesHoare Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book The Lost Tudor Domesday Book JamesHoare Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China undefined
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy? undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976) Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic. Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg undefined
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI undefined
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court undefined
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles  —  but Dennis, an...
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What Was the First Triumvirate? undefined
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul? undefined
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692? undefined
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front undefined
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’? undefined
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
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Weekend Roundup Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers undefined
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor? undefined
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee? undefined
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election JamesHoare Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888 The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists? undefined
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii undefined
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023 Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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What the Moon Is Like (1963) Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again. What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology? undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958) Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."  This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star undefined
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art undefined
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The Wrong Stuff Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide undefined
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch? undefined
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice undefined
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting undefined
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Summary of changes for April Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children? undefined
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
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“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes     Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything! Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969 In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors undefined
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence? undefined
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre undefined
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper undefined
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx undefined
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Upcoming Events So you're in the know...
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum undefined
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage undefined
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900) Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution? undefined
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens undefined
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About undefined
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in... Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today undefined
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What is Modernity? What is Modernity? JamesHoare Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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Forgotten Gods Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art undefined
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What Was the Transatlantic Slave Trade? undefined
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction? What Makes Good Historical Fiction? JamesHoare Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth undefined
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff undefined
a year ago
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time undefined
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States? undefined
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan undefined
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist undefined
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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...
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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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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Essential Classics Memorial Sales Ends
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Ancient Greek Astronomy Ursa Major
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting undefined
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce [NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery undefined
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia undefined
7 months ago
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe? undefined
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088 There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’? undefined
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus? undefined
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings undefined
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom undefined
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Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous? undefined
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter? undefined
9 months ago
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends undefined
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique. Another of my essays in French.
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans Romans before the Romans
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition undefined
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What Is the Ides of March? undefined
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn undefined
11 months ago
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry The Powers of Soviet Puppetry JamesHoare Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance? undefined
a year ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage "Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic undefined
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know undefined
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung? undefined
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty undefined
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung undefined
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs undefined
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics? undefined
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam undefined
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer? undefined
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques? undefined
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964) Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961. Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End? undefined
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress undefined
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It) undefined
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The Death of a Mnemonist The Death of a Mnemonist JamesHoare Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction undefined
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code undefined
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings? undefined
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy undefined
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best? Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works undefined
a year ago
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City undefined
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost undefined
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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...
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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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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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The Value of Wills to Historians The Value of Wills to Historians JamesHoare Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
9 months ago
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817 Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio? undefined
6 months ago
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments? undefined
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
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What Is a Banana Republic? undefined
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama? undefined
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs undefined
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
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...
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &... Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists undefined
a year ago
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius j.hoare Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests undefined
a year ago
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)? undefined
8 months ago
Open Culture
How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a...
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In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a German clown in Auschwitz. The result was so awful that he never allowed its release, and it quickly acquired the reputation—along with disasters like George Lucas’ Star Wars...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971 Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics undefined
9 months ago
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking? undefined
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