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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
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Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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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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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Dreams of Space -...
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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goji no chaimu
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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 First Written Language?
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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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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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Arguing with the Dead
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Classical Wisdom
The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
3 months ago
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
9 months ago
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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8 months ago
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
a month ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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4 months ago
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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a year ago
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
6 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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9 months ago
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
2 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
2 months ago
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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8 months ago
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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a year ago
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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7 months ago
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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3 months ago
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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2 weeks ago
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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9 months ago
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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2 months ago
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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2 months ago
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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a year ago
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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a year ago
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
2 months ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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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...
8 months ago
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...
Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
a week ago
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
a week ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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9 months ago
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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6 months ago
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
5 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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7 months ago
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
5 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
3 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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a year ago
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
11 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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8 months ago
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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a year ago
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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9 months ago
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
12 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 months ago
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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3 months ago
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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8 months ago
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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11 months ago
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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5 months ago
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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2 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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2 months ago
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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7 months ago
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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8 months ago
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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4 weeks ago
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
2 months ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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