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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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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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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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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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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Plato and Atlantis
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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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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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Summary of changes for April 2023
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Reality Would Like A Word.
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Eternal Glory
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
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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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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6 Must-See English Castles
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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