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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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The Great Flood
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Gladiator Combat
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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What Was the First Written Language?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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the sucessor of Songhai
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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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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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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...
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Summary of changes for March 2023
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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.
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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Summary of changes for November
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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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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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Games Nations Play.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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The Machine Stops.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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