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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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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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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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internet in paradise
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over a year ago
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Overcoming Bias
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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TheCollector
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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10 months ago
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Global Inequality...
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
9 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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7 African Myths About Animals
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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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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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
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TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
10 months ago
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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TheCollector
Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
4 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Classical Wisdom
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Three years late, but historians are always late
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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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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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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The most interesting things I read in 2023
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Technology indistinguishable from magic
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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