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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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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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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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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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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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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...
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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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...
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Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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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...
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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History as Tragedy?
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A Different View of Thucydides
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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The Ancient Novel
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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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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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Hundred Rabbits
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Does Karma Exist?
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Does what goes around come around?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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What Government Governs Best?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Trying to Understand...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
4 weeks ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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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...
8 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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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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