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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Young Technician December, 1957
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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US President or American Caesar?
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We left our mooring at...
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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Hidden History
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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In Defence of Boring Books
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JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Moving With the Times?
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JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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And how does it reflect on us?
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Another Of My Essays In French
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TheCollector
Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Wrong Side of...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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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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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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The Life of Terence
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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History Today Review of the Year
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 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‘...
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
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a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
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TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
a year ago
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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