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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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How the South Became Republican
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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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 Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
3 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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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...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Petra and Passports
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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The Early Years of Jesus
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year 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
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Who Was George Eliot?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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A Brief History of Chile
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Young Technician December, 1957
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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The True Knights Templar
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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