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Dreams of Space -...
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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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...
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Trying to Understand...
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Dr Alun Withey
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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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...
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The end of the great order under the Heaven
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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The Essential Greeks
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
a year ago
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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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...
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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They Say They Want Rearmament ....
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a year ago
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
10 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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A Brief History of Chile
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
8 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
2 weeks ago
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
9 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
3 weeks ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
2 months ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Open Culture
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...
2 weeks ago
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...
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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What Is Theodicy?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Odysseus in the Underworld
Real or Fantasy?
a year ago
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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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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