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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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How the South Became Republican
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Dreams of Space -...
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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What Is Capoeira?
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Patterns in Humanity
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Gods Vs Titans
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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What Is Nestorianism?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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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...
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‘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...
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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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?
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
African History...
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Bringing It All Back Home
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
a month ago
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Flashbak
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
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TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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