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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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Summary of changes for May 2024
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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 May.
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Is more complicated than you might think.
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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A Brief History of Chile
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Religion in the Olympics
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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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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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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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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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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African History...
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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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...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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A Strange Defeat.
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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a brief note on themes in African art.
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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A Collection of...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Hundred Rabbits
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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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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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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