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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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The KGB After Stalin
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
10 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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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...
3 months ago
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
TheCollector
7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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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...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist...
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Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of the people who lived and worked there. In the 1970s, Sheila arrived in London...
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
11 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Wrong Side of...
Wandsworth Prison Blues
It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
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It's certain that fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
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a year ago
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
a year ago
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
TheCollector
5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
10 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
7 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
6 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Classical Wisdom
6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
Overcoming Bias
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
4 days ago
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
History Today Feed
The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
2 months ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
3 weeks ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
Trying to Understand...
No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
a month ago
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Open Culture
Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
2 days ago
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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A Collection of...
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....
11 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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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
4 weeks ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Who Was Tertullian?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
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‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
a month ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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What Counts as a Planet?
What Counts as a Planet?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:24
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What Counts as a Planet?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/16/2025 - 09:24
Flashbak
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...
9 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‘...
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
7 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
6 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
9 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
2 weeks ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
a month ago
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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