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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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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...
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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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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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What Is an Antipope?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
9 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
7 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
a year ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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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...
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Who Won the Battle of Chattanooga?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Is the Flood Myth Universal? Flood Myths From Around the World
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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Is more complicated than you might think.
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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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...
7 months ago
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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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What is Modernity?
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
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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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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The Eccentricities of Arthur Conan Doyle: Fairies, Apes, and Spiritualism
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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A Collection of...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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Is it good to question everything?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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a year ago
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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The Secrets of Crete
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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6 Must-See English Castles
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