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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Hey everyone!
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Dreams of Space -...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
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African History...
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
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Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Classical Wisdom
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Should Death Concern Us?
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a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
History Today Feed
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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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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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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African History...
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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A Collection of...
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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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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What Is the Will to Power?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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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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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
6 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
3 weeks ago
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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The Electoral College Explained
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
10 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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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
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
2 months ago
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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