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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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...
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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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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Global Inequality...
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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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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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What Was Organization Todt?
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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On cartography as historical argument
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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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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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Patterns in Humanity
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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The Life of Terence
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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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...
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Final Call
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Nature in Greek Myth
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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The most interesting things I read in 2023
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Most of them are not from 2023
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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Global Inequality...
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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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...
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Beyond Stoicism
New Event: January 7th, 2025
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New Event: January 7th, 2025
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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