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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
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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...
African History...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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a year ago
Hey everyone!
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Overcoming Bias
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Res Obscura
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Trying to Understand...
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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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
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Was Négritude?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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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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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Classical Wisdom
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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...
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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