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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
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over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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What Is Capoeira?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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African History...
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Global Inequality...
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
2 months ago
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
Classical Wisdom
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Origins of Stoicism
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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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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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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Weekend Roundup
Banned Book Week Begins...
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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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
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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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...
8 months ago
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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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
a year ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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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...
2 months ago
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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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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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...
6 months ago
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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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
11 months ago
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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