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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Death of the King of Siam
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
Overcoming Bias
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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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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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Another Of My Essays In French
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Dreams of Space -...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Hundred Rabbits
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Patterns in Humanity
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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