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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
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11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
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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A Brief History of Chile
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
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10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Tolkien and Plato
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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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...
10 months ago
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,...
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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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...
2 months ago
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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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
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a year ago
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
a week ago
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
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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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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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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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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What is Plagiarism?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Res Obscura
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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