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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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The KGB After Stalin
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Dreams of Space -...
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Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
12 months ago
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
2 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Is Voguing?
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
7 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
a month ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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What Was Négritude?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
10 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
3 months ago
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
a month ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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8 months ago
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
8 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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8 months ago
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
2 days ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
11 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
8 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
2 months ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
4 days ago
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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