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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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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...
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
Res Obscura
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Flashbak
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...
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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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...
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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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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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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The End of the World?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 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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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Wrong Side of...
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
TheCollector
Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
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You don't need to know that.
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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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...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
TheCollector
René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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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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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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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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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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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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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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The Year's Midnight.
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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