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Summary of changes for August 2023
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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
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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How Should We Look at History?
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A Wasting Asset?
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Europe turns away from America.
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Aristotle on Luck
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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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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Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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In Praise of the Preterite
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a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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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...
a year ago
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...
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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Podcast with Stephen Fry
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
Classical Wisdom
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Monsters of Mythology
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10 months ago
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Summary of changes for January 2023
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Summary of changes for April
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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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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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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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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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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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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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Petra and Passports
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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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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What Is the Ides of March?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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History Today Feed
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
10 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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History Today Feed
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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TheCollector
Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
History Today Feed
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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TheCollector
The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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4 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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