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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
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What is Modernity?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
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 January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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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...
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
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And how does it reflect on us?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
2 months ago
American polarisation: part 2
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
2 months ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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What Was Jim Crow?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
3 months ago
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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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
6 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
10 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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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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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
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What's it going to be, then?
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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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...
over a year ago
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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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Sex Before Sex Education
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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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...
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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A very deep history of Halloween
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Why the liberal project will fail
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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When Was the First Crusade?
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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