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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Hundred Rabbits
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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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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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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What Was the Chaco War?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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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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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
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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Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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How can we train Resilience?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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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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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Hundred Rabbits
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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On Hegel's ignorance of African History
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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This Changes Everything!
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Global Inequality...
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Stop Making Sense.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Hundred Rabbits
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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demystifying an ancient African society
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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How Did Socrates Die?
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Overcoming Bias
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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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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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