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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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Mole Rocket (1965)
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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goji no chaimu
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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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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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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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Dreams of Space -...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
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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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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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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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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Trying to Understand...
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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What Is Gnosticism?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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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 Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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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
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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government in central Africa.
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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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...
10 months ago
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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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Nature in Greek Myth
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Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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