Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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How to Give a Speech
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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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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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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On cartography as historical argument
TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Dealing With Foreigners ...
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Is more complicated than you might think.
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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What Is Voguing?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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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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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Last Chance
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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.
Classical Wisdom
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
11 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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The Tudor War on Libel
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Who Was Vortigern?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Dreams of Space -...
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Res Obscura
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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JamesHoare
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Hundred Rabbits
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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A Collection of...
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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