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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Io Saturnalia!
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
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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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Beware the Lides of March
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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The case for prisons
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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When Was the First Crusade?
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Crime in the USA
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Trying to Understand...
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