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Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
a week ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
8 months ago
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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12 months ago
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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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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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...
2 weeks ago
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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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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6 months ago
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
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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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
a month ago
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
2 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
6 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
a week ago
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
a week ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
a week ago
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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a year ago
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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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...
6 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps...
3 weeks ago
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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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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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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What Is Theodicy?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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No More Heroes.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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No End Of A Lesson.
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What Was Négritude?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Inventing Cyrillic
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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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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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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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
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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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
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Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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9 months ago
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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 …...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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