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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Hidden History
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Death of the King of Siam
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Cosmodrome (1987)
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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JamesHoare
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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