TheCollector
Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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A Clash Of Symbols
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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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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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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The Diversity Paradox.
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10 months ago
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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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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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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over a year ago
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We left our mooring at...
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
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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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
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8 months ago
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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What Is an Antipope?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Their Enemies The Russians
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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A history of the Buganda kingdom.
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Who Was Eusebius?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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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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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
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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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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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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 Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
JamesHoare
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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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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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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