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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
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over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Ancient Anxiety
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Bringing It All Back Home
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
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History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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The third framing
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
Flashbak
Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Last Chance!
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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over a year ago
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TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Flashbak
A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Gladiator Combat
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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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...
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
a year ago
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
TheCollector
Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
3 months ago
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
a year ago
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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