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Hundred Rabbits
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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the rock of polynesia
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We'd also heard that the school...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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How the CCP is Closing China
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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A Collection of...
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
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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
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Flashbak
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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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...
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
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TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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JamesHoare
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Flashbak
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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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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