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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
TheCollector
How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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What Is the Ides of March?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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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
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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over a year ago
Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
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
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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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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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Classical Wisdom
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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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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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Summary of changes for October
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
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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...
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“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...
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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What Was Négritude?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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