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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview) undefined
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx undefined
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain JamesHoare Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore? undefined
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants undefined
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations undefined
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form undefined
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring undefined
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry? undefined
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World? undefined
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s “I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s   Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970) Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas.  I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect undefined
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959) This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age. This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous? undefined
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809) These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog? undefined
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin undefined
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa undefined
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland undefined
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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...
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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...
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder? undefined
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union JamesHoare Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn undefined
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review JamesHoare Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush undefined
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Artemisia of Caria Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War undefined
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor The Life and Work of Pheidias
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema? undefined
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four JamesHoare Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955) Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Stoicism and Stress Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference? undefined
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists? undefined
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee undefined
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?” undefined
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British an island in the maelstrom
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art undefined
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About undefined
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election undefined
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More) undefined
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions undefined
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens On the Spot: Kristin Semmens JamesHoare Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca? undefined
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico undefined
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America.   In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel JamesHoare Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name     We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay. But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know undefined
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The War on the Countryside The Shire must be brought to heel
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais undefined
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Truth in the old myths On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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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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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say? undefined
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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The Prophecies of Merlin The Prophecies of Merlin JamesHoare Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh undefined
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island JamesHoare Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams? undefined
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Man-Made Moons (1960) Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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You And Whose Army? NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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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...
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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...
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy? undefined
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled. It was all too difficult, finally.
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia undefined
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many undefined
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern undefined
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829 Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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Brushing for Britain Brushing for Britain JamesHoare Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of undefined
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement undefined
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The End of Power Projection? We can't get there from here, anymore.
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries? undefined
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts) undefined
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal undefined
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024 undefined
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M. undefined
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective? undefined
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime “Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime  ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime     Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US undefined
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire undefined
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome undefined
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American polarisation The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review ‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review JamesHoare Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific undefined
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children undefined
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer undefined
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire undefined
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever undefined
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Weekend Roundup The Essential Greeks
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The Death of Clive of India The Death of Clive of India JamesHoare Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies? undefined
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire? undefined
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible? undefined
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories) undefined
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade undefined
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million undefined
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea undefined
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review ‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review JamesHoare Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin undefined
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen? Why Do Civil Wars Happen? JamesHoare Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones undefined
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know undefined
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting undefined
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii undefined
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Who Was Walt Whitman? undefined
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time undefined
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut undefined
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland? undefined
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) “I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch   Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco undefined
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World undefined
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King undefined
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms JamesHoare Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome undefined
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist undefined
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible? undefined
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas? undefined
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking undefined
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné undefined
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19 undefined
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A History of the United States Supreme Court undefined
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit undefined
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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What Priority The Innocent? It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People? undefined
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office? undefined
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments) undefined
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth undefined
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine undefined
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness undefined
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity? undefined
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The Missile Will Always Get Through. But who is prepared to admit it?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement undefined
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block undefined
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice “Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart   Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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The Election That Caused the Boer War The Election That Caused the Boer War JamesHoare Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms undefined
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else?? Lessons from Borat
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The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius? undefined
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Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh.   When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England? undefined
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Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and... Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk? undefined
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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...
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The Year of Failing To Understand. Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again... Getting our events straight...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel undefined
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh? undefined
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible? undefined
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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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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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police undefined
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s “Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years? undefined
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection undefined
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves JamesHoare Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy undefined
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000 undefined
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition undefined
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They? undefined
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome undefined
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What Government Governs Best? Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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