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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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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.
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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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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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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A Forgotten Genre?
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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In Praise of the Preterite
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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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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Classics Gifts!
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
10 months ago
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
4 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
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
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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a month ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Flashbak
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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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
a year ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Anxiety
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
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Why the liberal project will fail
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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