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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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What’s the History of Gin?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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No Left Turn
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The Mystery of Morpheus
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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African History...
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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The Performance is Over
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Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Dealing With Foreigners ...
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a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Service to what nation?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What Is an Antipope?
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Tolkien and Plato
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Externalising Our Hatreds.
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Flashbak
Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Why the liberal project will fail
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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What Is Populism?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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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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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Patterns in Humanity
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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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...
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Classical Wisdom
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
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A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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