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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Arguing with the Dead
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
12 months ago
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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9 months ago
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
5 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
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...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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4 months ago
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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a year ago
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
2 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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3 months ago
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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a year ago
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7 months ago
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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8 months ago
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Classical Wisdom
Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
a year ago
Belief in the Ancient World
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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11 months ago
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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a year ago
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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4 months ago
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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a year ago
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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10 months ago
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“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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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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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’
2 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
a month ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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11 months ago
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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7 months ago
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
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,...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
4 months ago
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 months ago
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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4 months ago
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...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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a week ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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5 months ago
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