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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What makes a good friend?
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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
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Religion in the Olympics
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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What Is Capoeira?
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Service to what nation?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Dealing With Foreigners ...
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TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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African History...
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a complete history of an African monument
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
a month ago
And some associated reflections.
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Monsters and Myths
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Aristotle's Poetics
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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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...
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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TheCollector
Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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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...
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Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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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...
6 months ago
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...
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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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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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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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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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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A Clash Of Symbols
They are quite serious, actually.
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They are quite serious, actually.
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Who Was Eusebius?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Out Of Control.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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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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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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