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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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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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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Weekend Roundup
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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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
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
2 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Classical Wisdom
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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We Are All Civilisational States
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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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. ...
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
Classical Wisdom
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Blindspots and Biographies
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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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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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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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....
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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...
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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over a year ago
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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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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History Today Feed
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
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TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Hundred Rabbits
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...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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What Is Populism?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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