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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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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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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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In politics, well, it depends.
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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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;...
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Where did the time go?
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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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 Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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