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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Global Inequality...
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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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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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Flashbak
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Hundred Rabbits
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We left our mooring at...
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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TheCollector
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African History...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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A Collection of...
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Classical Wisdom
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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TheCollector
An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Secret of the Stoics
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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TheCollector
An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
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TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Dr Alun Withey
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
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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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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But striking poses is fun and easy.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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What Is Populism?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Patterns in Humanity
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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
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an island in the maelstrom
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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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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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Monsters of Mythology
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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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
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Your favourite half-British president
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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