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Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
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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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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What Is Capoeira?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
7 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Does Free Will Exist?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
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...
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
3 weeks ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
a year ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
a year ago
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
10 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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a year ago
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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