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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Plato and Atlantis
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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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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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
Global Inequality...
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a year ago
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
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a year ago
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Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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7 African Myths About Animals
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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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...
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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The Threat of Back to Normal
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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A Week Off And A New Language
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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What is Virtue?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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What Is Capoeira?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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TheCollector
Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Global Inequality...
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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