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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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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
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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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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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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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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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Global Inequality...
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Flashbak
Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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A Week Off And A New Language
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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Welcoming the stranger
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Wrong Side of...
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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What Is Voguing?
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Blindspots and Biographies
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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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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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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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...
History Today Feed
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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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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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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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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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...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
5 months ago
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
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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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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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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How Did Socrates Die?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
2 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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5 months ago
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France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
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