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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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But some things are more connected than others.
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Where did the time go?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Flashbak
Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Patterns in Humanity
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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CrimethInc.
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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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
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
11 months ago
A Collection of...
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a year ago
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TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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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,...
6 months ago
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus?
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
2 months ago
Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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JamesHoare
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Dry Toilet Installation
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over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
TheCollector
Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
Classical Wisdom
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
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JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
2 months ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
a week ago
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JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Weekend Roundup
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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JamesHoare
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
3 weeks ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
8 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Weekend Roundup
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History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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African History...
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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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
2 months ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
TheCollector
Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Flashbak
Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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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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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
8 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
2 months ago
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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6 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
TheCollector
10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
a month ago
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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10 months ago
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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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
2 months ago
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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