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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Summary of changes for August
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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What Government Governs Best?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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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....
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“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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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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A History of Phantom Pain
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A History of Phantom Pain
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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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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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Summary of changes for January
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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A Brief History of Chile
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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Who Was George Hodel?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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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...
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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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Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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When Was the First Crusade?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Early Bird is Ending
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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A Collection of...
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...
5 months ago
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...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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2 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Flashbak
Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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