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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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7 African Myths About Animals
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Hundred Rabbits
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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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.
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Dreams of Space -...
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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How Should We Look at History?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Philosopher Kings
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Global Inequality...
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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St. Nicholas
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Secret of the Stoics
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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You don't need to know that.
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Olympics Special
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
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.
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
7 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
TheCollector
Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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