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In their own...
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
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Centuries of Childhood
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Quick Notification
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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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.
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Origins of Latin Literature
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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4 months ago
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
History Today Feed
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:17
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Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Flashbak
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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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Out Of Control.
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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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...
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
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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.
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
2 weeks ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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...
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
7 months ago
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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?
TheCollector
Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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History Today Feed
The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
8 months ago
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
TheCollector
Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
6 months ago
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JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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a year ago
TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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TheCollector
Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
7 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
TheCollector
How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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TheCollector
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
5 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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How Iran Won the West
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
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Democracy
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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No Way Out
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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What Is the Didache?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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What is Plagiarism?
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Oops! I did it again...
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 11:12
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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The Two Trojan Wars
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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