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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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3 Most Notable Democratic Presidents in US History
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
10 months ago
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
7 months ago
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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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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In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Who Was Averroes?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
5 months ago
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
6 hours ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
a month ago
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
3 days ago
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
a week ago
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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