CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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Dreams of Space -...
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I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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There is no exit for dictators
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Empedocles
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Was Julian?
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Rules, Rules Rules
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Because that's all they can do.
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Dreams of Space -...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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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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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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A Collection of...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
7 months ago
‘D-Day Has Come’
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
History Today Feed
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
j.hoare
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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