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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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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...
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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.
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
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And the Palace where it was found...
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
TheCollector
Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
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TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Spartan Training
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
Classical Wisdom
Introducing....Classical Wisdom Books!
Plus... Merch!
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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