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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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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,...
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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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What Is the Ides of March?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Forgotten Gods
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Who Was Averroes?
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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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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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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TheCollector
5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
TheCollector
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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over a year ago
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GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Final Call
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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The God of Wine!
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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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...
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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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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
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TheCollector
Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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The Essential Greeks
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Res Obscura
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Another Of My Essays In French
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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a year ago
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
TheCollector
When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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...
a week ago
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.
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...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
6 days ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
a month ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
a year ago
...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
8 months ago
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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What Is Theodicy?
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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,...
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
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a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
3 weeks ago
Please help us not to understand.
Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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A History of the United States Senate
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do!
But striking poses is fun and easy.
11 months ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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