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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
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Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Res Obscura
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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What Government Governs Best?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Patterns in Humanity
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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CrimethInc.
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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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.
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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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...
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
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Three years late, but historians are always late
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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