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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Global Inequality...
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Rocket Divers (1962)
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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7 African Myths About Animals
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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See you again soon
a year ago
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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over a year ago
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Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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What Is Gnosticism?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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a year ago
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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A Brief History of Chile
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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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...
10 months ago
“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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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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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...
9 months ago
“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 …...
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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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...
3 weeks ago
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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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
2 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“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...
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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