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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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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...
4 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...
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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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,...
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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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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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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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...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
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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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
a month ago
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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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
2 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a week ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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