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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Hundred Rabbits
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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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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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!
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TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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Classical Wisdom
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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How Did Railways Help Standardize Time in Britain?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
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Flashbak
John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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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
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
CrimethInc.
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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The demonstrators are responding to the...
TheCollector
11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Essential Classics
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A Collection of...
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10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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...
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
4 months ago
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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When Was D-Day?
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
Another of my essays in French.
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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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...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
11 months ago
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
8 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
3 months ago
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
2 weeks ago
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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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...
7 months ago
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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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Weekend Roundup
The Nature of Love
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Beyond Stoicism
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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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...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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9 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
6 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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