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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Fate and Free Will
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Hundred Rabbits
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Essential Classics
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Race, economics and homicide
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Where did the time go?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How the South Became Republican
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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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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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
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Blindspots and Biographies
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
a year ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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