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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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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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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Euripides
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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Overcoming Bias
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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a year ago
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Who Was Eusebius?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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On 17th century "cocaine"
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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The Secret Life of Latin
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
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over a year ago
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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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
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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How to Give a Speech
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Wrong Side of...
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 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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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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In politics, well, it depends.
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Does Free Will Exist?
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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leleuvia
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Last Chance
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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