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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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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...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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New Year, Old Books
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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A Few Spots Left
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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What Was the First Written Language?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
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How was it for the ancient ladies?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Global Inequality...
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Games Nations Play.
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