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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Start to Infinity (1978)
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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How French Was Medieval England?
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How French Was Medieval England?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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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...
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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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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Important Notification
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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American polarisation
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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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...
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Petra and Passports
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Overcoming Bias
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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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...
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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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...
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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 Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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A Brief History of Chile
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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10 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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The Furies
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
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an African portrait of an African society
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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