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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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We left our mooring at...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Sex Before Sex Education
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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A Brief History of Chile
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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TheCollector
Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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an island to oneself
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Dreams of Space -...
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Your favourite half-British president
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
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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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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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...
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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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...
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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...
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
10 months ago
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Who Was Averroes?
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Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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.
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