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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Nature in Greek Myth
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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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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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Origins of Stoicism
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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The Electoral College Explained
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Wrong Side of...
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Wrong Side of...
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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What Is an Antipope?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
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A history of the monastic high life
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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The Secrets of Crete
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
TheCollector
5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
9 months ago
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
a month ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
3 months ago
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
2 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 months ago
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of 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,...
TheCollector
Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
4 weeks ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
2 months ago
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
TheCollector
8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
8 months ago
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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11 months ago
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
5 months ago
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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a year ago
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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