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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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What Is Capoeira?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
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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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
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over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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What Is Gnosticism?
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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The Essential Greeks
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6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Forgotten Gods
Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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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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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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What Is Populism?
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Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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11 months ago
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Lost and Found
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
4 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
a year ago
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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11 months ago
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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