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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Global Inequality...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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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...
a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Games Nations Play.
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Hidden History
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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Quesnay and China
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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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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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago....
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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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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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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...
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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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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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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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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Another Of My Essays In French
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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an island in the maelstrom
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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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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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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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 brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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