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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Hey everyone!
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Summary Of Changes
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Dreams 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...
a year ago
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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TheCollector
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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11 months ago
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History Today Feed
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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The God of the Dead
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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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.)...
TheCollector
Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
Flashbak
The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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