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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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What Is Nestorianism?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Sappho
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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What Is the Will to Power?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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