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“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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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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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...
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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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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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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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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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
2 months ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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