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We left our mooring at...
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Hey everyone!
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Summary Of Changes
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Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Monsters and Myths
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Flashbak
Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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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...
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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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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Why Socrates Matters
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Democracy
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Gladiator Combat
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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a year ago
Flashbak
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
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
TheCollector
Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
6 months ago
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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