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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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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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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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8 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
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The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
8 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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7 months ago
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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5 months ago
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Classical Wisdom
The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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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...
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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a year ago
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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10 months ago
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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9 months ago
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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12 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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9 months ago
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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6 months ago
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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a year ago
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
a month ago
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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a year ago
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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4 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its...
a month ago
Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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7 months ago
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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5 months ago
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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a year ago
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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11 months ago
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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7 months ago
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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...
a year ago
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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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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