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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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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...
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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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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Who Was Tertullian?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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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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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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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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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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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...
a month 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...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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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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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Explore medieval life and death with these 5 brilliant interactive maps!
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a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
TheCollector
Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Inside the Catholic State
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The world that created Caravaggio
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
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But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Why Socrates Matters
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Ancient Greek Art
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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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...
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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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...
8 months ago
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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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Is Voguing?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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