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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
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Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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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...
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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African History...
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Happy Holidays!
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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The Birth of Ovid
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
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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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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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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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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
12 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
3 days ago
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
Flashbak
A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
4 days ago
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
2 months ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
5 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
8 months ago
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
3 weeks ago
Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
TheCollector
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
4 months ago
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
2 weeks ago
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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