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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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One, Two (1965)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The Year's Midnight.
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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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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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Trying to Understand...
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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.
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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...
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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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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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