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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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JamesHoare
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Religion in the Olympics
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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...
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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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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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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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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Trying to Understand...
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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