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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
History Today Feed
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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TheCollector
How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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History Today Feed
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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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...
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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TheCollector
The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
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TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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journal of African cities chapter 9
TheCollector
10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
TheCollector
Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
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The kinetic phase may come next.
Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
History Today Feed
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
6 months ago
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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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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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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TheCollector Sits Down with Romulo Royo (Video Interview)
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
a month ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
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10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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...
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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...
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Classical Wisdom
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Classical Wisdom
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Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About?
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History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
Classical Wisdom
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Class Begins Tomorrow
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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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...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Mon, 07/29/2024 - 09:25
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Who Was Averroes?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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When Was D-Day?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
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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...
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“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 …...
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
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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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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