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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Patterns in Humanity
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Moon Base (1959)
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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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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Hundred Rabbits
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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