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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Patterns in Humanity
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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weird medieval guys
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
Global Inequality...
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Magna Graecia
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Arguing with the Dead
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Secret of the Stoics
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Flashbak
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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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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What’s the History of Gin?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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10 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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