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Beware Policy Abstraction
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
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For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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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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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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The Mystery of Penelope
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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Brushing for Britain
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less...
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Public-transit projects are the religious building endeavors of twenty-first century America, less because they’re motivated by the belief in any particular deity than by how much time and money they now require to complete. Take New York’s Second Avenue subway, whose less than...
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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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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Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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What’s the History of Gin?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
yesterday
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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...
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
TheCollector
What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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A History of the United States Senate
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
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On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
a month ago
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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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
8 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
TheCollector
10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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