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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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over a year ago
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Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Service to what nation?
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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A Wasting Asset?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
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Retelling of the Odyssey
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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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.
6 months ago
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
over a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
History Today Feed
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
5 months ago
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
3 weeks ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
Flashbak
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
23 hours ago
“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...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
3 weeks ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
2 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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What Is Capoeira?
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History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
4 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
a year ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
3 weeks ago
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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5 months ago
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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a year ago
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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4 months ago
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
7 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
TheCollector
Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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5 months ago
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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
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
11 months ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
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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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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9 months ago
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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4 months ago
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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a month ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
9 months ago
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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6 months ago
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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a year ago
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
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What Was Négritude?
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4 months ago
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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10 months ago
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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9 months ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
a week ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
Classical Wisdom
Hades
The God of the Dead
a year ago
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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4 months ago
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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11 months ago
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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5 months ago
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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a month ago
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
6 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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11 months ago
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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a year ago
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