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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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How Iran Won the West
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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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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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Socrates and the Soul
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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The Art of Pompeii
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Rome's Worst General?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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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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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Secrets of the Sirens
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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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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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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