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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Summary of changes for September
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over 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Dr Alun Withey
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
How Are Art and Science Related?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Summary of changes for July
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
African History...
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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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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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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