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Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Summary of changes for July 2023
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Patterns in Humanity
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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Some people never grow up.
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Dreams of Space -...
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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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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What Is the Will to Power?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
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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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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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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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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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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...
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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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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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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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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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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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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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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Beneath the Waves...
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Petra and Passports
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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