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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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The Birth of Ovid
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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6 Unsettling Artworks by Mike Kelley
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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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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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Res Obscura
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Kikkuli!
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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the sucessor of Songhai
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
TheCollector
5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
History Today Feed
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Changing Seasons
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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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...
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
2 weeks ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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 Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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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.
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Trying to Understand...
The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Blindspots and Biographies
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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a year ago
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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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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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
7 months ago
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
6 days ago
Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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