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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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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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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
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And some bits and pieces of news.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
JamesHoare
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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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...
a year ago
“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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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
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Moving With the Times?
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Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Classical Wisdom
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The Epics Collection
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
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...
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
TheCollector
7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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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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