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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary Of Changes
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The ideology of Donald J. Trump
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The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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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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The Death of Clive of India
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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...
2 months ago
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...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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What Is the Will to Power?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
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