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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
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Another of my essays in French.
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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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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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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The Story of Thebes
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Antarctic Snow Cruiser
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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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...
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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How to Steal From Homer
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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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.
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Summary of changes for July 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 July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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When Was D-Day?
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Last Chance
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Trying to Understand...
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But the future worries me.
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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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...
2 months ago
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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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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8 months ago
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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9 months ago
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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3 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
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St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
a week ago
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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8 months ago
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
2 months ago
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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4 months ago
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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9 months ago
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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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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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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What Is Populism?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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9 months ago
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
3 months ago
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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9 months ago
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
a month ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
12 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
3 weeks ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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2 months ago
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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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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9 months ago
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
2 months ago
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
5 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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3 months ago
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
2 weeks ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
7 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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