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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
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I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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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)...
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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Socrates and the Soul
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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The Electoral College Explained
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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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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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
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Classical Wisdom
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
3 days ago
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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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...
a year ago
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...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
a month ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
TheCollector
6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
a month ago
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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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?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
TheCollector
4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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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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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
Hundred Rabbits
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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...
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
6 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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?
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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TheCollector
What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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8 months ago
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
TheCollector
Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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