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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Wood stove installation
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Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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What Was Négritude?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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What Is Populism?
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
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For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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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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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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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...
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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