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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Patterns in Humanity
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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In politics, well, it depends.
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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African History...
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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And some associated reflections.
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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When few do great harm
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Summary of changes for February 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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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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over a year ago
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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African History...
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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The End of Power Projection?
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TheCollector
The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Greek or Roman?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Patterns in Humanity
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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The Essential Greeks
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Secrets of the Sirens
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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8 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
3 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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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...
6 months ago
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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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
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Historical origins of the malaise
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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