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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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US President or American Caesar?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
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Petra and Passports
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
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7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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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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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Who Was Averroes?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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“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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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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What Is the Didache?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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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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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Educated rage
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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But why aren't people in other countries listening?
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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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
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Flashbak
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...
TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
TheCollector
5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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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...
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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TheCollector
Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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They didn't know. But they know now.
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
6 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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