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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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7 months ago
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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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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5 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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8 months ago
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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7 months ago
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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a year ago
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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2 months ago
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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2 months ago
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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4 months ago
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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a month ago
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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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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8 months ago
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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3 months ago
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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11 months ago
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
a week ago
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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8 months ago
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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4 weeks ago
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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7 months ago
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 months ago
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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a year ago
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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2 weeks ago
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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a year ago
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 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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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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a month ago
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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a year ago
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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5 months ago
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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a year ago
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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10 months ago
Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
a week ago
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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8 months ago
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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a year ago
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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4 months ago
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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10 months ago
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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a year ago
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
a month ago
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
4 days ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
TheCollector
9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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a year ago
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
9 months ago
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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a month ago
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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3 months ago
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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11 months ago
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
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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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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4 months ago
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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5 months ago
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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8 months ago
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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10 months ago
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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3 days ago
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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5 months ago
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 months ago
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
5 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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6 months ago
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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a year ago
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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3 months ago
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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a year ago
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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11 months ago
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