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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Peter (Simon) of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Death, Legacy
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Does Karma Exist?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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an island to oneself
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Many of the...
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Inventing Cyrillic
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Summary of changes for November 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 November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
2 months ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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What Is the Didache?
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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What Was Négritude?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Harpies: Beasts of Vengeance in Greek Mythology
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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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...
Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
2 months ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
History Today Feed
Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:17
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Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution
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Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:17
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
a year ago
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
2 months ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
9 months ago
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Liberation of the Oppressed: What Is Liberation Theology?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
a month ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
8 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
9 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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The Eccentricities of Arthur Conan Doyle: Fairies, Apes, and Spiritualism
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
4 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Sixth-Century Sword Unearthed in Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
7 months ago
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
7 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
12 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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