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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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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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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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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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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Another Of My Essays In French
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Sweden's immigration taboo
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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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...
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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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To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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What Was Négritude?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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