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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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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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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...
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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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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Brushing for Britain
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Summary of changes for April
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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