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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...
9 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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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Last Chance!
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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The Philippine-American War: The US’s First “Vietnam”
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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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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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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What Is Theodicy?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
2 months ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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African History...
The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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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...
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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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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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What Was Organization Todt?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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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...
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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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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Summary of changes for December
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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The Mystery of Penelope
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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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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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Death of the King of Siam
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Death of the King of Siam
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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Aristotle's Politics
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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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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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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...
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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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Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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History Today Review of the Year
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Weekend Roundup
Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Trying to Understand...
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