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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Overcoming Bias
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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The Electoral College Explained
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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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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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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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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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
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This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
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Columbine 25 Years On
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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