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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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The Two Big Games
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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The Pompeii Mosaics
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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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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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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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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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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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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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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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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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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...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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What is Modernity?
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Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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The politics of physiocracy
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Winged Victory
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 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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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
Trying to Understand...
The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
a year ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01