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“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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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
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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 United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Upcoming Events
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
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But the future worries me.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Another Of My Essays in French
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3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
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Why the liberal project will fail
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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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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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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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...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
TheCollector
More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
a month ago
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
a week ago
And if not, what are the consequences?
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
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...
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What Is an Antipope?
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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