Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
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a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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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
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
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
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
TheCollector
Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
a month ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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TheCollector
The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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TheCollector
The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Flashbak
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...
7 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...
TheCollector
How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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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...
8 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
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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TheCollector
5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
4 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
TheCollector
What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
Flashbak
Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
2 months ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
TheCollector
Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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TheCollector
Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
9 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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TheCollector
The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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TheCollector
Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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TheCollector
Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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TheCollector
6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
TheCollector
Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
9 months ago
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
TheCollector
Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
Who Were the Landsknechts?
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TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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TheCollector
The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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TheCollector
Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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TheCollector
Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Flashbak
The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman...
2 months ago
The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
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....
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
4 months ago
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
a year ago
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
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TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
3 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
TheCollector
Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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TheCollector
‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
3 weeks ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Summary of changes for December 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Kikkuli!
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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The Story of Thebes
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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What Is Solipsism?
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Socrates and the Soul
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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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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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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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...
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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internet in paradise
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Celebrate Cicero!
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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