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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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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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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Patterns in Humanity
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
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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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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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A Collection of...
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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