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How Mexico Fought Franco
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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How the South Became Republican
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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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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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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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...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Patterns in Humanity
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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There is no exit for dictators
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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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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Hundred Rabbits
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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