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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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The end of the great order under the Heaven
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The Many Roads to Rome
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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JamesHoare
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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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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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
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But what about the rest of us?
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Does Free Will Exist?
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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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
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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Or does war have its virtues?
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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