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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Magna Graecia
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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What Is the Didache?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
Patterns in Humanity
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Global Inequality...
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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The Life of Aristotle
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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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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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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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...
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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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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
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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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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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What Is Theodicy?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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