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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Not that much, actually.
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Early Years of Jesus
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
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Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
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Beware Value Dashboards
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2 months ago
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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What Is an Antipope?
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Origins of Stoicism
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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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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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
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But what about the rest of us?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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5 months ago
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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6 months ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Are the Romance Languages?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
5 hours ago
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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2 months ago
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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...
5 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...
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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
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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a year ago
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 months ago
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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8 months ago
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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5 months ago
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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11 months ago
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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9 months ago
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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11 months ago
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
2 days ago
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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9 months ago
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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a year ago
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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4 months ago
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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a month ago
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
a month ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a week ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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7 months ago
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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8 months ago
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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...
3 months ago
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. ...
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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