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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
3 weeks ago
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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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Trying to Understand...
A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
a year ago
They are quite serious, actually.
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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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...
4 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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7 African Myths About Animals
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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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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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
4 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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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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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
7 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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The Electoral College Explained
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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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...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Three steps to freedom
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
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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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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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.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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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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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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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...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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How Should We Look at History?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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