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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Summary of changes for May 2023
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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a year ago
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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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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The Performance is Over
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
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4 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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What Is the Didache?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
7 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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8 months ago
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TheCollector
6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Seneca On Clemency
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Res Obscura
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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over a year ago
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Summary of changes for April
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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.
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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What Is Populism?
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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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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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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Understanding political violence.
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Best of the Best
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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