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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The KGB After Stalin
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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over a year ago
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
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a year ago
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Global Inequality...
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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Does Karma Exist?
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8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
Flashbak
Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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weird medieval guys
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The 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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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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