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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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When The Music's Over ...
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Tolkien and Plato
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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What Is Solipsism?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
9 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Upcoming Events
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Hundred Rabbits
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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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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