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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
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over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Overcoming Bias
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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a year ago
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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over a year ago
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
African History...
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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