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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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In politics, anyway.
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Please help us not to understand.
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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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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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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state and society in south-central Africa
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Out Of Control.
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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African History...
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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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...
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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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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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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 international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Hidden History
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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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
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They know what they think.
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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...
4 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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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
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Arguing with the Dead
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TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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What Is the Ides of March?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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