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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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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...
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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...
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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Summary of changes for April
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Summary of changes for May
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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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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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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