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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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A History of the United States Senate
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
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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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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CrimethInc.
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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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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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...
11 months ago
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 …...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
a year ago
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Open Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters...
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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...
TheCollector
10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Was Jesus a Radical?
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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 Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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TheCollector
Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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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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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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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...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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What Was Négritude?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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JamesHoare
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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