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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Aristotle on Friendship
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Who Was Eusebius?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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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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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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The Water Is Rising.
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
TheCollector
6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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Art of the Etruscans
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a week ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
6 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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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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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Res Obscura
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Columbine 25 Years On
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Global Inequality...
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Secrets of the Sirens
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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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 Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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6 Must-See English Castles
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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A Collection of...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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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.
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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