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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces.
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...
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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...
TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
4 days ago
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
TheCollector
What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Classical Wisdom
Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Classical Wisdom
Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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Bringing History to the Future
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
TheCollector
The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
10 months ago
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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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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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Socrates and the Soul
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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Why did clothing become boring?
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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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.
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
Fragments of Poetry
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Monsters of Mythology
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
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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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Art of the Etruscans
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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What Was Négritude?
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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The World's First Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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