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Does Free Will Exist?
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
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There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Rome's Worst General?
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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The Cyclops
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Artemisia of Caria
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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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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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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an island in the maelstrom
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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When Was the First Crusade?
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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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...
7 months ago
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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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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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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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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What Is Gnosticism?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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The Ancient Ozempic
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What is TIME? And Dates?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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History Today Feed
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
8 months ago
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
10 months ago
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
Classical Wisdom
Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
9 months ago
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“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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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
5 months ago
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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